Intel Demonstrates 65nm process SRAM

From what I understand, the current P4 chips use a 90nm process. When you consider that a human hair is 100,000 nanometers wide, that's an incredibly small piece of silicon. Intel has recently demonstrated it's next generation 65nm process, and plans to begin shipping 65nm chips by 2005.

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archi...031124tech.htm

The upshot to this is that smaller is better, but as the technology shrinks, a few problems arise. For example, the current fastest P4s discharge a fair amount of electrons, not enough to disrupt any equipment, but still much higher than previous processors. Unfortunately I can't tell you the specifics of that or how it works, since, I don't know.