New silicon chip breakthrough could extend Moore's law for years

Jun 03, 2026 Last reply: 1 month ago 7 Replies
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New 3D silicon chip breakthrough could extend Moore’s Law for years Date: May 30, 2026 Source: University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering Summary: As traditional chip miniaturization slows, researchers have found a way to pack more computing power into the same space by stacking silicon circuits in multiple layers. The new process uses ultra-thin silicon membranes and low-temperature manufacturing techniques to overcome a major obstacle that has long blocked the production of true 3D chips.



Will it work? dissipation?


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Zeiss video showing 3D memory in volume production starting 2015: (starts around 5 minutes in)

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Advantage of new method not at all clear from sciencedaily article.

Zeiss has a bunch of entertaining videos on lithography including latest generation of EUV.:

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Moore's Law is not a law and it became broken long ago. (S.

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Last week Huawei announced this (from brave search):

"Huawei has unveiled the LogicFolding chip architecture and the Tau Scaling Law, a new design framework intended to bypass US sanctions by focusing on signal propagation speed rather than traditional transistor miniaturization. This approach aims to achieve transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm chips by 2031, though the immediate commercial application will be the Kirin 2026 smartphone chip launching in fall 2026."

Reuters has a decent article, and I've seen at least one youtube video on it that I'm pretty sure said they had working prototype chips now and expect full production this fall. Wonder how the UI process compares?

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Nice!

Thank you for the links. I have now seen all 3 parts, took and saved some screen-shots too. seems Chromium browser now allows you to save a specific video frame too (pause video, use right mouse click in video and select that option):

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 252198 Jun 3 19:59 videoframe_478600.png

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 203354 Jun 3 20:18 videoframe_268242.png

Fascinating equipment.. where will it go? Stop at the molecular level, make self-organizing transistors / logic? Wait a minute: LIFE! DNA and RNA level? We are .. the advanced chips! And chip manufactory, brain cells growing, And we, humans, come up with all that stuff, re-inventing ourselves?

A true miracle..

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Huawei had no choice, the US war house nut case forbidding ASML to export to China, Huawei makes nice stuff, I use Huawei 4G USB sticks to access internet and post this. Their stuff is near perfect. And automatically detected by my Raspberry Pies and Ubuntu laptop running Linux.

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It's wonderful how many breakthroughs there are every day.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

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