Thursday, February 5th 2009
Intel 32 nm Silicon Technology On Course for Late 2009
Having reacted rather sharply to the ongoing global economic slump by planning massive workforce and production cuts, one would expect Intel to be conservative with its development potential. In a contradiction to just that, a recent conversation EETimes had with Mark Bohr, director of Intel's technology and manufacturing group, the director said that the company is on course with its plans to introduce the newer 32 nm silicon fabrication technology by late 2009.
"The 32 nm technology is getting ready to go into the manufacturing phase, we are lining up fabs to support it and we expect great demand. We are on track for shipping products in the fourth quarter and have 22 nm technology in development for 2011" said Mr. Bohr. The conversation previewed some of the papers Intel plans to present at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference that convenes next week.
Intel follows a "tick-tock" model of product development cycle, wherein, the company designs new microprocessor designs and silicon fabrication technologies in alternation. In each cycle, an architecture gets to be made on at least two successive fabrication technologies before itself being succeeded by a newer design. Currently Intel employs the 45 nm High-K metal gate manufacturing technology, on which it introduced later variants of the Core 2 series CPUs, and has introduced its Nehalem architecture, with Core i7 being its first commercial implementation.
Source:
EETimes
"The 32 nm technology is getting ready to go into the manufacturing phase, we are lining up fabs to support it and we expect great demand. We are on track for shipping products in the fourth quarter and have 22 nm technology in development for 2011" said Mr. Bohr. The conversation previewed some of the papers Intel plans to present at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference that convenes next week.
Intel follows a "tick-tock" model of product development cycle, wherein, the company designs new microprocessor designs and silicon fabrication technologies in alternation. In each cycle, an architecture gets to be made on at least two successive fabrication technologies before itself being succeeded by a newer design. Currently Intel employs the 45 nm High-K metal gate manufacturing technology, on which it introduced later variants of the Core 2 series CPUs, and has introduced its Nehalem architecture, with Core i7 being its first commercial implementation.
21 Comments on Intel 32 nm Silicon Technology On Course for Late 2009
& now with the 32nm procesors comin - everyones gonna flock over the wall to 'intel' territories to try out their uber overclocking chip prowess.
not good for AMD yet again. AMD might not target the 'high end' market. but at the end of the day I doubt their low to mid end range gear is bringing in huge profits at the same time. Its only a matter of time before they dissapear,
The idea of them disappearing is also wrong for that reason, they're just back where they've been for over two decades.
Good. 32nm will cut power and heat! :D
Having the best $1000 processors on the market really doesn't mean much to 99% of consumers.
They will find someone to help them - i hope - even in this economy, otherwise.. well, i don't think we - the end users - would want AMD to die.
my PS3 has taken over my gaming, so i pretty much stick to PC only games on the PC and do all my media encoding.
And YES, they did cut back. They just cancelled i5. And culled thousands of employees.
AMD/ATi had to play the same game with Nvidia in the gfx department shortly after the merge, and catch up they did! Maybe AMD/ATi dont have the most efficient stream processing design but they are even with Nvidia in my books and we havnt seen the likes of this since pre-8800GTX days.
Im very confident that AMD/ATi will also adapt chipset functionality/memory on their CPU's in the very near future simular to what Intel has done, only with a much better performance/compatability factor (When used in combination with an AMD/ATi GPU).
Long story short, dont write AMD/ATi off anytime soon.
. . . . Didnt the 2 guys that formed AMD once upon a time work for Intel, and ever since then have simply been advisors to Intel ?
your right they arent as big as intel. but at the same time they might have the 'right' kinda people working for them. & to me - all your saying is more or less the same thing but worded differently - In my scenario AMD goes into administration. in yours they take TIME to go into administration but over all its the same out come - AMD will cease to exist because Intel will keep on researching & marketting agressively because they can & because 'they have money' & AMD will lose even more market share & profits till the point its begging OEM's to use their products when INTEL have already muscled in & cut a deal with them.
AMD will continue to sell at a loss or go against the tide by pricing their releases 'higher' then Intels when Intel already has possibly the most bang for buck cpu's on the market. who wants to pay more for a product that does LESS then a competitors product for MORE money???
the die hard fanboys or at least the ones with money to thorw away will still buy kit from AMD. but alone wont be enough to keep AMD afloat unless they find someone to invest a huge amount of money in them