Windows 7 - Intel's 3D Transistor

Everlong · 05-04-2011

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Intel announces a major breakthrough and historic innovation in microchips: the world's first 3-D transistors in mass production
The transition to 3-D continues the pace of technology advancement, fueling Moore's Law for years to come.
An unprecedented combination of performance improvement and power reduction to enable new innovations across a range of future 22nm-based devices from the smallest handhelds to powerful cloud-based servers.
Intel demonstrates a 22nm microprocessor -- code-named Ivy Bridge -- that will be the first high-volume chip to use 3-D transistors

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The video really puts in to perspective the size of what 22nm really is.

mickey megabyte · 05-04-2011

absolutely mindboggling stuff - thanks for the vid, Everlong!

skynet, here we come!

Win7User512 · 05-04-2011

Glad I'm good until Ivy Bridge or later arrives.

Side note: I wonder if that guy in the video is related to Niels Bohr.

johnwillyums · 05-04-2011

Good article on ZDNet about this development:

Intel: Moore's Law has been cubed; Welcome to 3-D transistors | ZDNet

johnwillyums · 05-04-2011

Sounds amazing. Is this gonna mean another socket as well?

Among the key points:

3-D Tri-Gate transistors will operate at lower voltage with less leakage. The upshot is that performance will improve.
Chip designers will be able to pick fins and choose transistors for low power or performance.
22nm Tri-Gate transistors will use less than half the power at the same performance as 2-D 32nm chips.
These 3-D transistors have a 10x lower depletion rate.
Applied to a CPU, you can have a lower clock rate with the same performance as higher speeds.

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jfar · 05-04-2011

Thank you for that, amazing.

mickey megabyte · 05-04-2011

now i see why they're called chips...

...and waffles

johnwillyums · 05-04-2011

Hmmn. I just tried to answer my own question. Word was in February that Ivy Bridge would be backwards compatible with 1155 boards, although there is some doubt as to whether the current 1155 boards will work well with this chip. Still leaves me with a 1366 whatever. Anybody got more up to date info?

Everlong · 05-04-2011

Quote: Originally Posted by johnwillyums

Hmmn. I just tried to answer my own question. Word was in February that Ivy Bridge would be backwards compatible with 1155 boards, although there is some doubt as to whether the current 1155 boards will work well with this chip. Still leaves me with a 1366 whatever. Anybody got more up to date info?

Not really looked in to it, but there's x68 with the LGA2011 socket that has quad-channel memory etc. Possibly Ivy Bridge will be set to run on that.

alan10 · 05-04-2011

I query the accuracy of the first statement, viz
"the world's first 3-D transistors in mass production".

Silicon Planar transistors have a name that implies 2-D,
but the variations of doping with depth makes it 3-D

Previous Silicon Junction transistors are more obviously 3-D

Germanium Alloy Diffused Transistors

How about Cat Whisker Transistors ?

transistor