Monday, September 14th 2009
Intel Commences 32 nm Chip Production
Intel's foundries have commenced mass production of the company's first processors based on the 32 nm second generation high-K metal gate (HKMG) technologies. With these the company's next-generation Westmere architecture becomes retail-grade. The first products will include dual-core processors compatible with the recently introduced socket LGA-1156 platforms, and will carry the brand identifiers (and model number schemes) Core i5 600 series, Core i3 500 series, and Pentium dual-core series.
The desktop-grade parts are based on the "Clarkdale" core, and notebook-grade ones "Arrandale". The latter will be introduced first among the two, with the first Arrandale chips slated for Q4 2009, while the desktop chips arrive a little later in Q1 2010. Intel will focus on this transition to the Westmere architecture in the upcoming Intel Developer Forum event.
Source:
PCMAG
The desktop-grade parts are based on the "Clarkdale" core, and notebook-grade ones "Arrandale". The latter will be introduced first among the two, with the first Arrandale chips slated for Q4 2009, while the desktop chips arrive a little later in Q1 2010. Intel will focus on this transition to the Westmere architecture in the upcoming Intel Developer Forum event.
11 Comments on Intel Commences 32 nm Chip Production
Looking forward to some low power cool processors in 2010.
Perhaps I should just call it "nodes" and "half-nodes" and forget the numbers. GPU's send to die shrink over half-nodes whereas CPUs tend to process shrink over nodes.
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GPUs went from 65nm to 55nm to 40nm.
28nm as the next shrink for GPUs sounds right - but it will be a while before they get there, considering how painful the 40nm migration has been.
Seems like just yesterday we were at 130-180nm.....
Intel is going to be using 32nm on Hex Core and Dual Core.
Pisses me off no end. :shadedshu