Processors producers are forced to proceed with heavy expenses in order to decrease the transistors sizes . Building one factory for processors production cost $3-5 billion, and in the near future this value will increase to $12 billion.
IBM research subdivision reported that it was possible to find a method to decrease the conductors sizes , which connect transistors in contemporary processors. This factor for a certain degree held in control a increase in the processors speed . Now it is proposed to use as insulator between conductors voids with width several nanometers but not dielectrics .
IBM representatives are assured that up to 2009 this technology will be used in processors production , and then will be extended to entire semiconductor production. AMD also can win from the introduction of this technology, IBM is its technological donor. IBM simultaneously examines the possibility of replacing the copper conductors with waveguides, which will allow to make the so-called optical chips.