“Intel’s latest processor architecture, codenamed Ivy Bridge, is its previous one, Sandy Bridge, shrunk,” Simon Crisp reports for The Register.
“Sandy Bridge chips, marketed as second-generation Core i CPUs, were produced using a 32nm process. Ivy Bridge is 22nm,” Crisp reports. “Actually, there’s a little bit more to it than that.”
Crisp reports, “At the heart of the new fabrication process is the Intel’s Tri-Gate transistor technology, which the chip giant is calling the world’s first ‘3D’ transistor. Traditionally, the transistors in a processor or any other silicon chip are to all intents and purposes flat, so they’re considered to be 2D even though they’re not literally so. The new Tri-Gate transistors have a fin that stands vertically up off the silicon substrate, hence the 3D tag.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Inside the MacBook Air please!
Sooo, when are these hitting the MacBook Pro line? Please.
I’m going to the Apple Store this afternoon to get a 13′ MBP. My late 2006 MBP is being passed to my daughter who can get rid of her refurb 2005 or 2006 MacBook.
reduced by 10nm but vertical “fin” added? won’t it be “thicker?”
yeah. by like 7nm.
That’s a 100% increase!!! Way too much! The sky is falling!
Do you have to wear special glasses? Cuz that’s a deal killer for me.
I don’t know…..that vertical fin may make it too tall to be in the MacBook Air.
Please the 6, 8 and 10 core E version rumored in Mac Pros! We need new Mac Pros!