Saturday, July 5th 2008
Intel Sees a Clear Path to 10nm Fabrication Process
Pat Gelsinger of Intel says that they will be in a position to shrink their chips to a 10 nanometer silicon fabrication process within the next ten years.
Referring to Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and his famous law, Gelsinger said: "There was a time where Intel and his colleagues wondered whether they could reach 100nm chips." continued, "But we did do that, and today we see a clear way to get to under 10 nanometers. With Moore's Law we always have about 10 years of visibility into the future, so beyond 10 nanometers, we're not sure how we'll do it".
Gelsinger said that "We are putting more and more of the periodic table onto that silicon scaffolding. Today we use about half of the elements on the periodic table. When [Intel co-founder Robert] Noyce and Moore started, they used six elements, more elements have to be added to facilitate such a shrink".
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Referring to Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and his famous law, Gelsinger said: "There was a time where Intel and his colleagues wondered whether they could reach 100nm chips." continued, "But we did do that, and today we see a clear way to get to under 10 nanometers. With Moore's Law we always have about 10 years of visibility into the future, so beyond 10 nanometers, we're not sure how we'll do it".
Gelsinger said that "We are putting more and more of the periodic table onto that silicon scaffolding. Today we use about half of the elements on the periodic table. When [Intel co-founder Robert] Noyce and Moore started, they used six elements, more elements have to be added to facilitate such a shrink".
19 Comments on Intel Sees a Clear Path to 10nm Fabrication Process
I think it is all good shareholder talk. I also think they will struggle to achieve this, not only from the physics of nano-electronics, but also from the optics of trying to "press" such a small die.
... oh, and a rebuff, to AMD's chipset roadmap. If Intel's roadmap is 10 years and to 10nm, makes AMD look like amateurs.
i HOPE they can do it. But unlike the shrinks from 90nm to 65 to 45nm, Intel now faces two currently unsolved problems. (Unsolved from a practical, not theoretic, point of view)
While I do see the shrinking of the CPUs as a major phenomenon, how are we going to be able to shrink the Desktop PC any further if we keep needing more and more power for the GPUs? I like CPUS that give you more but use less power, but that seems almost nonprevalent when it comes to GPUs
Last I heard, it was going good.