Intel 45nm fab to open in 45 days
SAN FRANCISCO--In 45 days, Intel will open its first high-volume facility for building chips that use a 45-nanometer manufacturing process.
A dime sits atop a wafer of processors built with Intel's 45-nanometer manufacturing process.
(Credit: Intel)The facility, called Fab 32, is a new one built in Chandler, Ariz., said spokesman Nick Knupffer, in an interview here at the VMworld conference. Most of Intel's current chips are built with a process that permits 65-nanometer circuitry elements, but the new 45-nanometer process will mean more circuits can fit on the same area of silicon wafer.
Intel currently builds 45-nanometer processors at its D1D facility in Oregon, but Fab 32 will be geared for high-volume manufacturing.
Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices has just begun its transition to 65-nanometer processors.
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frequencies equal to its 90nm technology, I guess I'd have to agree
that they're still beginning their transition to 65nm.
In fact, I'm a little surprised that you would claim their 65nm
process is mature, when all of their top of the line chips are still
being made on 90nm.
We really need faster CPUs that have smaller footprint of heat consumption.
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by spothannah
September 12, 2007 7:49 AM PDT
- I find this amazing. Any idea as to the next "downsizing" in terms of size and when it is expected to take place?
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