Motorola Alliance May Be 1st in Chip Roll-Out
U.S. based Motorola Inc. said its partnership with two other semiconductor makers probably will be the first to produce a new generation of microchips, beating Intel Corp. by at least six months.
Early this week, Motorola, STMicroelectronics and Philips jointly unveiled a design platform to build chips based on 90-nanometer circuitry, versus the current 130-nanometer standard. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter.
Thinner circuitry makes each separate chip cheaper to produce, faster and more energy-efficient.
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