What is nanochip?

"Nanochip" is a term referring either to a typical computer chip that is measured in nanometers, or some new computer design based on "nanotechnology", another vague word. In principle, the word is so vague that you can theoretically use it to indicate any modern computer chip. Nanochip technology uses a field of small tips for an atomic probe to electrical records in the storage medium. The probe tips are only 25 Nm and can modify the storage media with an accuracy of 10 nanometers or less. According to the company, this could allow microchips with 100 GB storage capacity until 2009 and terabytes (TB) further along the line.

nanochip, Inc. It is supported by various VC companies and larger chip companies, including Intel. Her field technology is reminiscent of Millipede IBM, an extinct project that used a similar approach. Millipede was obviously abandoned sometime around 2006 for unknown reasons. Meanwhile Nanochip is working on its technologistII since 1996, but began to receive media coverage around 2007. It remains to find out whether the nanochip technology will see daylight or whether it fails as Millipede.

Sometimes the word "nanochip" is also used to indicate conventional computer chips that integrate Nanowire carbon into their structure. Carbon nanowires are highly conductive and the chips that use them cannot be produced exclusively using traditional photolithography - they must go through two production phases, one for a conventional chip and add the other to Nanowire.

Nanowire are useful for computer technology due to their very small size and high conductivity. Sometime between 2015 and 2025, it seems feasible that computers will be built almost exclusively from carbon nanowire, but for the time being, we are in the transitional period between chips made by photolithography and chips made with more advanced methods.