Nanowire or nanotube? Intel looks ahead

September 11, 2002 | Source: CNET News.com

Intel is working with Harvard and other universities on silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes. After 2010, one of these technologies could begin to replace standard transistors and over time become the building block of chips.

Intel is also experimenting with atomic layer deposition, which lets manufacturers make chips by piling single layers of atoms on top of each other.