John Markoff in Monday's NYT.

News from the IEEE ISSCC suggests the rate of growth is increasing, not decreasing. Intel has room-temperature subsystems at 10 GHz, and feature size is down to 0.09 micron. IBM and Analog Devices also have spiffy new stuff to show off. Tidbit: Intel's McKinley will include 221 million transistors.

For a taste of the conference taking place right now is SF, check out these PDFs.

Advance Program
    http://www.isscc.org/isscc/2002/ap/ap/AdvProg.pdf

Plenary Session
    http://www.isscc.org/isscc/2002/plen/Session01_OV.pdf
    http://www.isscc.org/isscc/2002/plen/Paper1_1D.pdf
    http://www.isscc.org/isscc/2002/plen/Paper1_2D.pdf
    http://www.isscc.org/isscc/2002/plen/Paper1_3.pdf

The Increase in Chip Speed Is Accelerating, Not Slowing