Intel's new 22-nanometer 3D transistors

Intel today announced what it called a major technical breakthrough and historic innovation in microprocessing, introducing a 3D transistor called Tri-Gate that will result in both performance and power improvements in the 22-nanometer "Ivy Bridge" chips.

Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's architecture group, holds a silicon wafer produced using the new 22nm 3D manufacturing process.