Photos: Technology Showcase at IDF 
Published: 17 Apr 2007 12:50 BST
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Wafer thin
This is not the first time 45nm wafers have been seen in captivity, but this 12in. collection of circuits could contain around seventy thousand billion transistors — considerably more than there are stars in the largest galaxies known to man. The difference between Intel and the cosmos is that Intel can make as many of these as it likes (within reason), and you're likely to have slivers of this silicon in a computer or other gizmos in the next couple of years.
Photo credit: Rupert Goodwins
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