MIT Focuses on Chip Optimization

eldavojohn writes "MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories is focusing on the manufacturing of chips as the variables that affect chip quality become more and more influential. From one of the researchers, "The extremely high speeds of these circuits make them very sensitive to both device and interconnect parameters. The circuit may still work, but with the nanometer-scale deviations in geometry, capacitance or other material properties of the interconnect, these carefully tuned circuits don't operate together at the speed they're supposed to achieve.""

Re:In Soviet Russia

[Plammox]

Sorry for my bad english, I meant RTFA in the past tense.

monkeys

[stranger_to_himself]

I read the title as 'MIT Focuses on Chimp Optimization.'

Thought maybe they'd been having trouble recruiting.

Re:harder on designers

[Anonymous Coward]

The 65nm one is not much bigger than the 90nm one but it is in a vault like out of Mission Impossible and it has dry ice smoke flowing over it.

The 45nm one is like the 2 dimensional prison in Superman II that Zod and his chums get banished into. Except it has greem-screen text characters on it like in the Matrix. And the 2001 music plays whenever you see it.