NEC develops 55 nm technology

Nihon newspaper Keizai Shimbun said that electronics company NEC (Japan) - the world's eighth largest manufacturer of semiconductor components, has successfully developed the technology to produce microprocessors with wide breadth. The circuit is 55nm (nanometers).

With this technology, the chips will be smaller in size, transmit data faster and the price will be cheaper. NEC is expected to begin mass production in 2007.

However, the office of NEC company has not provided any official comment.

Towards 45nm technology, NEC and TOSHIBA, the seventh ranked company, have announced they will cooperate to share research costs and shorten the time to commercialize products. The cost of research and production development for devices such as microprocessors will increase with the narrowing and narrowing of the circuit, and is a huge difficulty for micro chip manufacturers.

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, announced that it will build a 45nm chip manufacturing plant in Israel, worth about $ 3.5 billion and a similar factory in Arizona, USA, though However, at any time, it is unknown.

What to say, with the development of chip manufacturing technology, consumers will enjoy many products that are faster, cheaper, and will have more opportunities to improve technology for developing countries. development.

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