AMD dismisses Intel 'high-k' transistor tech

[SM-Bot]

AMD have shrugged off Intel's pursuit of high-k dielectric materials as the foundation for future 45nm process technologies. Taking a jab at its rival, AMD said its new transistor isn't dependent upon the use of high-k dielectric materials, which have apparently been shown to have negative effects on some aspects of CPU transistor performance.

The chip maker's own solution is a three-gate transistor design, which it discussed at this year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, held in Washington, DC. AMD also re-iterated its belief that silicon-on-insulator technology remains the best foundation for today's chips - and tomorrow's.

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[csimon]

:Pwned: lol

[Thrax]

Their High-K transistor research at Intel is a bunch of hogwash in my eyes.

Every other processor company, when announcing a new transistor technology, patents the process and then releases whitepapers detailing the process from design to implementation.

Intel on the other hand did no such thing, leading me to believe that it's just a vapourous statement intended to drown out AMD's success of the SOI process.

Intel did the same thing in 2002 with the announcement of tri-gate transistors on the day of AMD's announcement of bi-gate transistors. Of course, Intel's tri-gate announcement faded away, has not been implemented, and was never mentioned by them again.

GG Intel.