researchers in the us have shown that a technology called extreme ultraviolet light ( euv ) lithography may illuminate the path to the next generation of semiconductor chips. Chips manufactured with euv technology are likely to be 10 times faster than today's chips and will be able to store 1,000 times more information.

Violet light has a short wavelegnth of 0.4 microns (a micron is a millionth of a metre), that allows the focusing of extremely narrow strips of light which