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BOSTON (AP) - The partnership among IBM Corp., Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. that produced the vaunted Cell microprocessor is being extended for another five years to focus on advancing chip designs at extremely small scales.
The companies planned to announce Thursday that their next joint research project will aim toward chips with features smaller than 32 nanometers — 32 billionths of a meter.
Today's chips generally are built with components as small as 90 nanometers, though 65-nanometer-based chips are emerging. It's part of the microprocessing industry's constant fight to wring performance improvements and cost efficiencies out of ever smaller chips.
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