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Intel releases video on 45nm and hafnium metal-gate transistors
Blog At the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) this week in Washington. Intel talked some more about its 45nm technology - and has also produced a video showing hitherto secret R&D and production techniques.
[December 13, 2007, 12:11]
UMC produces first 45nm SRAM
News Taiwanese supplier UMC says it has successfully produced functional 45-nanometre SRAM chips for the first time. The move maintains UMC's momentum in the market for 45nm chips, in which Texas Instruments, Intel and IBM also feature strongly.
[November 20, 2006, 23:00]
Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron review
Reviews AMD's 45nm chips have arrived almost exactly one year after the first Intel processors to use the same feature size — currently the most advanced process used in mainstream processor production. Codenamed 'Shanghai', the new AMD processors are...
[November 20, 2008, 12:46]
IBM clambers onto 45nm bandwagon
News IBM is the latest technology firm to announce plans to have 45nm chip technology available for production by 2007. Intel and AMD have already pledged to have 45nm technology ready by 2007, while Philips, Freescale and STMicroelectronics are working...
[May 25, 2005, 17:15]
AMD launches 45nm 'Shanghai' processor
News AMD launched its latest quad-core Opteron processor, code-named 'Shanghai', on Thursday. The chipmaker hopes that the improved performance and energy efficiency of its first 45nm (nanometre) server processor will help re-establish the company's...
[November 13, 2008, 12:08]
Intel's two-way punch knocks out 45nm chips
News With Intel's announcement last Friday of a production-ready 45nm process for semiconductor production, the company is claiming an increased lead over its nearest rival AMD through the adoption of multiple new technologies.
[January 30, 2007, 14:33]
Photos: Intel launches its 45nm chips
News Intel announced a significant leap forwards in processor design and production late last week. Its new 45nm (nanometre) chips, named Penryn, use two long-sought innovations to increase performance while holding down power consumption.
[January 30, 2007, 14:46]
Benchmarks: Intel's first 45nm Penryn chip review
Reviews On 29 October 2007, Intel took the wraps off the first of its Penryn family of processors. The quad-core Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650, codenamed Yorkfield, replaces the QX6850 and will be available from 12 November.
[November 11, 2007, 11:39]
IBM licenses 45nm technology in China
News IBM has licensed its next-generation technology for manufacturing processors to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, the largest chipmaker in China, the companies said on Wednesday. The partnership spotlights the growing technical...
[December 27, 2007, 11:08]
Accelerating EDA Application Performance with 45nm Quad-Core Processors
White Papers Intel IT and Synopsys conducted a joint performance assessment of 64-bit Intel multi-core platforms running Synopsys Proteus* application for optical proximity correction (OPC).
[February 15, 2008, 0:23]
AMD claims power saving in updated Shanghai
News AMD on Monday updated its line of 45nm quad-core Opteron processors with five new energy-efficient models aimed at helping datacentre managers cut back on power costs. At the same time, it announced two high-performance 45nm quad-core processors...
[January 26, 2009, 16:05]
IDF: Ultramobile Intel processor breaks cover, adopts Linux, gets alliance.
Blog "The mobile Internet spiral is exploding! Dadi Perlmutter, Intel The new mobile processor is codenamed Silverthorne. It's on a 45nm platform, runs with a chipset called Poulsbo and sits at the heart of a platform called Menlow which will launch...
[April 18, 2007, 4:53]
Six new AMD processors for business due Q3
Blog AMD is reported to have announced six new 45nm processors to be launched in the third quarter of this year and aimed at business users. The announcement follows AMD's launch of its first 45nm Shanghai processor in November this year.
[January 5, 2009, 12:06]
Intel launches six-core Dunnington chips
News Intel has launched its latest Xeon 7000 series processors, based on 45nm technology, for the multi-processor server market. Code-named 'Dunnington', the Xeon 7400 family of processors come in quad-core and six-core versions, Ho Soo Pine, Intel's...
[September 16, 2008, 9:06]
Moore's Law on course for another two years
News The 45nm process is right on time, according to Intel. The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant has created test chips made on the 45nm process and is likely to begin shipping processors, flash, and other chips based on that process in the...
[January 26, 2006, 9:15]
Intel removes lead from chips
Blog Intel claims its taking an “aggressive stance” towards the use of lead in its chips and has committed to removing its entire 45nm Hi-k family which includes the Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad and Xeon processors.
[May 24, 2007, 11:39]
IBM set to boost chip memory
News IBM on Wednesday plans to unveil a new way of putting memory on processors that it thinks will dramatically improve performance. Starting with its 45nm (nanometre) processors next year, IBM will use embedded DRAM (dynamic RAM) instead of SRAM...
[February 14, 2007, 8:06]
World's first working 32nm device at IDF, Nehalem design finished.
Blog Paul Otellini just showed off "the world's first working 32nm device" - a wafer containing test memory circuits, 291 megabit RAM chips with 1.9 billion transistor per die. Expect 32 nm parts in 2009. And Penryn, the 45nm processor, will be...
[September 18, 2007, 17:05]
The problems of processor manufacture
News Paulo Gargini is the director of technology strategy at Intel. He describes what he does as long-range research. I'm very happy when after ten or 15 years I see an idea come into production," he explains.
[March 10, 2006, 17:05]
IBM, NEC team up on 32nm chip tech
News NEC has enrolled in the joint-development alliance set up by IBM to work on next-generation 32nm (nanometre) technology. The two companies have signed a multi-year agreement, IBM said in a statement. As well as work on 32nm technology, the...
[September 12, 2008, 14:56]
