80 nm chips

TSMC, one of leaders in manufacturing of chips is now starting using new manufacturing process, which will allow them to reduce size of single chip by 20%. That is only minor change, but it will probably bring slightly lower prices, cause from same waffer will be manufactured 20% more chips. Also they will probably heat slightly less, so they wont make too much noise from cooling etc. 80 nm process is not completely new, its only optimalization of 90 mn, but it still can bring some good. (Remember, first pentium was only optimalised 486.. And also when Intel have pentium on 60 mhz with problems when counting, AMD have 486 on 133 mhz fine working..)