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For computer chip builders, only one way to go: Up

May 04, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In the race to build a faster computer chip, there is literally nowhere to go but up. Today's chip surfaces are packed with the tiniest electronic switches the laws of physics allow, but Intel Corp. says it is blowing past those limits with a breakthrough, three-dimensional transistor design it revealed Wednesday....

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