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Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure

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Intel Corporation today announced a significant breakthrough in the evolution of the transistor, the microscopic building block of modern electronics. For the first time since the invention of silicon transistors over 50 years ago, transistors using a three-dimensional structure will be put into high-volume manufacturing. Intel will introduce a revolutionary 3-D transistor design called Tri-Gate, first disclosed by Intel in 2002, into high-volume manufacturing at the 22-nanometer (nm) node in an Intel chip codenamed "Ivy Bridge." A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter.

The three-dimensional Tri-Gate transistors represent a fundamental departure from the two-dimensional planar transistor structure that has powered not only all computers, mobile phones and consumer electronics to-date, but also the electronic controls within cars, spacecraft, household appliances, medical devices and virtually thousands of other everyday devices for decades.
 
This is BIG. And here I thought it was just to be a Honeycomb on X86 announcement :eek:
 
If AMD does not have access to this technology then I would suggest selling the shares now :(
 
And here I thought that I would be keeping Sandybridge for a few years... sheesh.
 
The name made me think that they'd be releasing 3 state switches. On, Off, and Sorta-Off, or something of that nature. This is cool too, kind of like SOI. Wiki says Intel doesn't use their equivalent technology called TeraHertz, which strange.
 
SonicTron said:
I wonder what this is going to mean for performance.
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"According to Intel, the 3D Tri-Gate transistors yield up to 37 percent higher performance over today's 32nm planar transistors. Further, these transistors consume less than half the power as the planar variants."

http://www.infoworld.com/t/processors/intel-transitions-chips-third-dimension-019

This will NOT translate into a 37% increase in IPC all by itself. They will have to change other things as well.

I am also curious if it is 50% less power used at the same clock speed or if they are going for 50% less power at the same performance level (lower clocks).

Does this mean that we will start seeing CPUs that run at temperatures that are similiar to what AMD processors already run at?

I am at work now so I will have to watch the video later.
 
Reminds me of IBM/Hitachi's get perpendicular music video ;)
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It sounds like Intel's really been working on this for awhile, so hopefully, it'll be a mature technology when they start putting out Ivy Bridge chips.
 
very interesting, I was expecting something along the lines of signal transfer thru the vertical plane to another layer of transitors, but this is an easy transformation without the problems of cooling between my stacks.
 
A 22nm Ivy Bridge chip, the first to use tri-gate transistors, was demonstrated this morning during the announcement.

Up next: IBM will release a paper touting its superior tri-gate design. :p
 
I love videos like this. Truly amazing technology here!
 
I wish the guy put a little more emotion into it. Then again, I love company videos.
 
Ossum!

See how the performance will be, but this may be my upgrade from the good ol C2D! :p
 
Wow..

I remember speaking with a friend of mine who works at Intel all the way back in 2007.

We speculated as to how CPUs will be made under 32nm, seeing as current transistors can't function well enough in that size.

In our minds, the solution was inevitable - the Tri-Gate transistor..

It's just so fascinating seeing it come to reality.
 
is Intel doing anything with graphene yet?!?!?!?!?!?! wtf Intel !!!!
 
Crest said:
I wish the guy put a little more emotion into it. Then again, I love company videos.
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His name is Bohr. What did you expect? :D

This tech is really exciting. I'm looking forward to what it may yield in the (hopefully near) future.
 
duncansil said:
If AMD does not have access to this technology then I would suggest selling the shares now :(
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AMD just got fucked unless they have something to counter this. Between High-K and now Tri-Gate, it's the one-two punch.
 
Maybe the Shrink Ray was AMD powered with an Nvidia Fermi or something... I mean, it freakin' exploded, yo! :D
 
Methadras said:
Well, that's a fairly new development that I wasn't aware of. Considering that graphene used in lieu of silicon or as a hybrid with silicon wouldn't take this shape, then I still stand by its inherent fragility. I hope they can do stuff with it, but so far, I don't see commercialization of any real note for a long while to come.
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LOL

*tin foil hat*

Yes yes! Fairly new development that I was not aware of HM HM HUR HUR yes yes!

*hat off*
 
Would it be smart to hold off to build a SB pc and wait for this new chip?
 
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