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As we move toward the nanoworld of tomorrow, the potential is enormous. While hype artists with wild imaginations have suggested powerful, invisible, self-reproducing machines that could run around fixing things inside our bodies or building complex structures molecule by molecule, the real impact will probably be much more subtle and far-reaching.

Solid State Technology asked a chipmaker and an equipment supplier to comment on how the Roadmap affects manufacturing strategies.

While fab folks are still mostly only talking about design for manufacturing and 3D chip stacking, the assembly world is actually doing it, and getting significant improvements in system-in-a-package (SiP) cost and performance.

It is tempting to dismiss much of the cutting-edge research being conducted in the nanomemory sector as having little commercial application.

Yield in the sub-100nm ground-rule regime strongly depends on controlling the semiconductor patterning process.

A growing number of wet chemical processes are moving to filtration systems with fluoropolymer membranes to achieve higher levels of purity.