Intel Evolves Chipmaking Technology

KingFish

Intel has built a new chip with 500 million transistors using the latest advancements in nanotechnology, the company said Monday.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said its fully functional, 70-megabit static random access memory (SRAM) chips, which were built using 65-nanometer (nm) process technology, are scheduled for production starting in 2005. The company's vision is to take its 65nm technology and include it in its dual-core processor designs with more than a billion transistors on a chip. The company said increasing the number of transistors and shrinking the size of the processors will also let it add other features usually reserved for the surrounding chipsets or software applications, such as virtualization and security capabilities.

Source: Internet News

mmonnin

It will also require 100A to power it as well.:rolleyes2

Intel's future is certainly the sub-90 nanometer space, which is becoming one of the fastest emerging areas in the sector. Currently, the company is shipping its Pentium 4 "Prescott" processor based on the 90nm process and is introducing its second generation of Intel-strained silicon in its 65nm chips. The technology increases transistor performance by 10 to 15 percent without increasing leakage.

We will see about that.

GHoosdum

'without increasing leakage' my ass!

muddocktor

If their "new" strained silicon is so damn good, then why aren't they using it with present presshott's then?

primesuspect

GHoosdum wrote:

'without increasing leakage' my ass!

I think it will be a new forum-wide rule that the phrases "increasing leakage" and "my ass" will not be allowed to be used together....

GHoosdum

primesuspect wrote:

I think it will be a new forum-wide rule that the phrases "increasing leakage" and "my ass" will not be allowed to be used together....

I think we're going to have to ban CrazyJoe0813, then!