Sentence examples for made ever smaller from inspiring English sources

The work by Intel overcomes a potentially crippling technical obstacle that has arisen as a transistor's tiny switches are made ever smaller: their tendency to leak current as the insulating material gets thinner.

As the grain size in nanocrystalline materials is made ever smaller, the questions of what the smallest grain size could be and what factors influence it become highly relevant to material synthesis and application.

It had been thought the law could finally be disproved as it became too difficult to make ever smaller transistors.

— The ability to cram more data into less space on a memory chip or a hard drive has been the crucial force propelling consumer electronics companies to make ever smaller devices.

The microelectronics industries have refined the fabrication methods to make ever smaller devices, but these methods will soon reach their fundamental limits.

The experiment comes as good news to scientists striving to make ever smaller optical devices, says David Kielpinski, a physicist at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

But in trying to make ever-smaller lens assemblies that can focus and zoom, camera designers encounter difficulties.

This is the reality faced by those trying to make ever-smaller transistors, one of the key components of virtually all modern electronic devices.

[C5.] Hitachi to Introduce One-Inch Hard Drive In the race to make ever-smaller disk drives for hand-held consumer appliances, Hitachi Ltd. is to announce that it has matched Seagate Technologies with what it says is the smallest drive on the market, a one-inch-diameter hard drive that holds eight gigabytes of data.

The next move, chip designers say, is another leap toward movie-style graphics in PCs as the fabs, or semiconductor factories, learn to make ever-smaller transistors.

New manufacturing processes, wireless technology and intelligent software are making them ever smaller, smarter and, most important, cheaper.