February 1997 / Features

February 1997 / Features

How to Make the World's Fastest CPUs

Fab Four Plus Two

Not Playboy Attire

A Mechanized Society

Pattern Projection

An Electrifying Experience

The Defective Minority

Building Transistors, Layer by Layer

The Goal: CMOS Transistor Pair

Starting Point: Photoresist for Arsenic Implantation

Next Step: Aluminum Deposition Becomes the First Metal Layer

Final Assembly

Enter a world where dust is your enemy, day and night run together, and blazingly fast CPUs are born.
- by Tom Thompson

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My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.

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