Intel will begin production of 45nm Penryn

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On Thursday, Intel will begin production at its first 45-nm fab, based in Chandler, Ariz. Known as Fab 32, the $3 billion factory will be used to manufacture the companys latest microprocessor line. The first 45-nm microprocessor, known as Penryn, will be launched on Nov. 12. Interestingly, Intel did not release production data for the new facility. The company also will not allow cameras inside the facility at a press event on Thursday morning, according to a company spokeswoman. What is known is that the facility contains 1 million square feet of space, of which 184,000 square feet is actually dedicated to the clean room manufacturing facility. More than 1,000 employees will work there, Intel said.

The 45nm manufacturing process is generally seen as the next big step in the semiconductor industry because it goes a long way toward addressing power leakage problems that plague larger technologies. A microprocessor built with 45nm process technology is smaller than its 65nm predecessor. Parts of the chip, like wires and transistors, get smaller, as well allowing it to work more efficiently because of the increased density. Theyre also cheaper to produce because manufacturers can pack more chips onto a silicon wafer. Damn, Intel is getting some serious lead against AMD now

Source: Computerworld

[mewt]

26/10/07 - AMD - R.I.P.

[PostmortemMT]

Originally posted by mewt
26/10/07 - AMD - R.I.P.

Jixtruhom Microsoft nejd jien lol.

[mewt]

Originally posted by Postmortem
Jixtruhom Microsoft nejd jien lol.

tohodiex bi kbira

[PostmortemMT]

Originally posted by mewt
tohodiex bi kbira

Minhiex fil-fatt. Iktar nejka ghax kwazi kulhadt joqbodu lil Microsoft.

[thrasher]

abt a year a ago core 2 was the next great big step and now its becoming very mainstream with the new 1333mhz fsb versions selling for almost half the price of the oroginal chips. All in all they are stepping away for intel's quad core (perynm) and amd's (barcelona)

[ki||fr0g]

ehh AMD.. they were the first to bring 64-bit to the desktop and the first to focus on multi-core CPUs.. and now they're in their worst slump ever imo. What a pity! Intel has certainly hit the jackpot with the Core 2 range, and now they'll have the 45nm advantage

[Polter]

xinu l vantagg ta din xix xi haga gdida, ax fdawn laffarijiet jien naqra ekk:confused:

[BravoDGr8]

Originally posted by ki||fr0g
ehh AMD.. they were the first to bring 64-bit to the desktop and the first to focus on multi-core CPUs.. and now they're in their worst slump ever imo. What a pity! Intel has certainly hit the jackpot with the Core 2 range, and now they'll have the 45nm advantage

yeah fully agreed, but i <3 AMD anyways for what they did, even my present cpu is a 4600+ Dual core which hopefully im not planning to change anytime soon!

[johnmaclane]

wasnt intel the first with dual cores? pentium D, although crappy they were still dual cores maybe not as elegant as the modular k8 dual core but sure as hell was a dual core..

[ki||fr0g]

maybe but they sucked, AMD were the first to successfully market and sell a lot of dual core CPUs

[ki||fr0g]

Originally posted by Polter
xinu l vantagg ta din xix xi haga gdida, ax fdawn laffarijiet jien naqra ekk:confused:

Bazikament 45nm (45 nanometer) kemm tkun kbira memory cell.. l-vantagg ta electronic components on silicon izghar hija inqas shana u inqas problemi ta power u current. Lookup semiconductor and CMOS manufacturing

vantaggi ghalina = better and cheaper hardware

[thrasher]

all in all better performance for less :p

[Polter]

Originally posted by ki||fr0g
Bazikament 45nm (45 nanometer) kemm tkun kbira memory cell.. l-vantagg ta electronic components on silicon izghar hija inqas shana u inqas problemi ta power u current. Lookup semiconductor and CMOS manufacturing

vantaggi ghalina = better and cheaper hardware

Originally posted by thrasher
all in all better performance for less

ahjar hux :D

[yancho]

Originally posted by ki||fr0g
Bazikament 45nm (45 nanometer) kemm tkun kbira memory cell.. l-vantagg ta electronic components on silicon izghar hija inqas shana u inqas problemi ta power u current. Lookup semiconductor and CMOS manufacturing

vantaggi ghalina = better and cheaper hardware

am i right li nghid li hekk jistghu izidu aktar cores at no risk li jishon?

[johnmaclane]

Originally posted by yancho
am i right li nghid li hekk jistghu izidu aktar cores at no risk li jishon?

your right, that's why you need a smaller process to fit more cores in the same area with he same thermal dissipation as the previous generation.

(Unless your shrink has problems like intels 90nm node which had a massive leakage current)

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Intel launches 45nm Penryn chips

Intel plans to announce a family of microprocessor chips on Monday that it says will speed the availability of high-definition video via the Internet. Sean Maloney, Intel’s chief sales and marketing officer, said last week that the chips’ increased computing power would begin the transformation of today’s stuttering and blurry videos, the staple of YouTube and other video streaming sites, into high-resolution, full-screen quality that will begin to compete with the living room HDTV. “It’s biggest impact is high-definition video,” he said. “It will be highly addictive.” Intel’s new family, made up of 16 processors, would first be used in servers and high-end desktops that compress the video. They are the first chips based on a new manufacturing process that Intel says will give it a significant competitive advantage by increasing computing performance while reducing power consumption.

The chips, which were developed under the code name Penryn, use a re-engineered transistor that is about half the size of its predecessor. It switches more quickly, reqube ires less switching power and leaks less current than that previous transistor. The Penryn chips are at the next stage of refinement, just 45 nanometers. The company said it would be able to squeeze up to 820 million transistors onto a single silicon die. The company is making the chips at two factories, in Oregon and Arizona. Next year, it will add two plants, in Israel and New Mexico. The first products based on the new manufacturing technology will be Intel Core 2 and Xeon microprocessors. Chips for notebook PCs, marketed as the Intel Core 2 Extreme and Intel Core 2 Duo, will available in the first quarter of next year. Is this the end of AMD? Unless they introduce a really revolutionary processor, their days may be slowly over…

Source: NY Times