Bring the wonder
0 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Sunday, January 28 at Sunday, January 28, 2007.
In this otherwise interesting article about Intel and IBM moving to a "next generation" of microprocessors, I found this little factoid pretty incredible:
Its nice to get little reminders sometimes of the sheer scale of the everyday miracles that surround us....
"Today transistors, for example, are made with systems that can create wires and other features that are finer than the resolving power of a single wavelength of light."Phwoah. Intel's new chips will be built based on 45 Nanometer parts, meaning that typical features of the chip - wires, transistors etc - will be around 45 Nanometers wide. For some comparison, a red blood cell is around 8,000 nanometers wide, and a human hair around 80,000 nanometres. (thanks, Wikipedia...)
Its nice to get little reminders sometimes of the sheer scale of the everyday miracles that surround us....
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