Intel shows off working 22nm processor

“As part of its Developer Forum keynote, Intel today showed the first working example of chips built on a 22 nanometer (nm) process. The process is even smaller than the 32nm technology just entering production and should run even more efficiently while fitting more into a given space,” Electronista reports. “A single example chip about the size of a fingernail contains about 2.9 billion transistors and about 364 megabits (45.5MB) of static RAM.”

Electronista reports, “32nm is only due to enter full scale production late this year and makes 22nm more likely for 2011.”

Full article here.

21 Comments

  1. It will integrate a new graphics core into the chip die itself

    I’ve been waitng a long time, for that Amiga custom graphics chipset.
    So maybe 4Ghz, 10 Ghz ?
    Come on REALLY, how about at least 3.5-4 Ghz.

  2. @alansky

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    Don’t embarrass yourself.”

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    “I don’t smoke and I’m not narcissistic.”

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  4. Less heat, less resistance, faster. Nice. But we’re approaching the limit of the size reductions…It’d be nicer to know what Intel/AMD have in the works for the world beyond the current processor production and design methods. Circuitry one atom wide and then what?

  5. …good news that Intel isn’t resting too much. Sounds like 22nm chips are on schedule to hit the market in 2011. There were rumors that Intel would pause for a while to milk the current 45nm Nehalem / upcoming 32nm Westmere cash cow that currently has no significant competition.

    The next generation 32nm “Sandy Bridge” architecture ought to be here in late 2010, unless Microsoft successfully petitions that it can’t keep up with this rate of progress. Multiprocessing never was a Windows strong suit.

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