Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
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Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
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Re: Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
#2A couple of highlights from the article:
"The key to today's breakthrough is Intel's ability to deploy its novel 3-D Tri-Gate transistor design into high-volume manufacturing."
"The 22nm 3-D Tri-Gate transistors provide up to 37 percent performance increase at low voltage versus Intel's 32nm planar transistors."
Re: Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
#3Will this allow them to increase clock speeds? They mention a 37% perf increase, but I don't know what exactly they mean by that.
Re: Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
#4I liked Engadget's coverage of the release http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/04/intel-will-mass-produce-2...
I'm a sucker for videos. This Tri-Gate tech was first announced in 2002, I love seeing pie in the sky technology come into reality and widespread usage.
Re: Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
#5Will this allow them to increase clock speeds? They mention a 37% perf increase, but I don't know what exactly they mean by that.
Clock speed is just another metric, not the most important one. You also have chips that do several operations per clock cycle, low power consumption chips, chips that do parallel processing. All these factors affect performance as well.
Re: Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
#6The New York Times has an article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/science/05chip.html
The article links to some graphics: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/05/05/science/05chip_...
Re: Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
#7Will this allow them to increase clock speeds? They mention a 37% perf increase, but I don't know what exactly they mean by that.
Clock speed is just another metric, not the most important one. You also have chips that do several operations per clock cycle, low power consumption chips, chips that do parallel processing. All these factors affect performance as well.
Not to mention branch prediction, out-of-order execution, etc...
Re: Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
#8This is the sort of thing I read and think to myself "go check HN comments where someone smart will explain this in layman's terms"
Re: Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
#9Will this allow them to increase clock speeds? They mention a 37% perf increase, but I don't know what exactly they mean by that.
I would think that they are talking about clock frequency. They do say that you can either have the 37% performance increase, or use less than half the power when at the same performance.
Re: Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
#10Will this allow them to increase clock speeds? They mention a 37% perf increase, but I don't know what exactly they mean by that.
Clock speed is just another metric, not the most important one. You also have chips that do several operations per clock cycle, low power consumption chips, chips that do parallel processing. All these factors affect performance as well.
That may be true for a processor, but when talking about transistors, I think that clock speed and power consumption are the metrics to measure.