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Friday, July 06, 2001
http://www.techreview.com/web/essex/essex070301.asp X Marks the Chip By David Essex July 3, 2001 Diagonal wiring promises to bring cheaper, faster and smaller chips. Moore's Law, which states that transistor density doubles every 18 months, has bumped against the laws of physics. And chipmakers are feeling the bumps. .... And there's another huge bottleneck in packing in transistors ever more tightly—the interconnects (aluminum or copper wiring) that link the transistors. An industry group proposes a better solution for interconnects: X Architecture, which lets interconnects be drawn at 45-degree angles, rather than confined to the rectangular "Manhattan" grid that has been the norm since the mid-1980s....
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