TI Strides Towards 65 Nanometres
News The nanometre figure refers to the average size of features on chips produced with the process. The Dallas company on Monday said it has created static random access memory (SRAM) based on its forthcoming 65-nanometre manufacturing process.
[March 23, 2004, 10:20]
AMD Sets A Course For 2008
News Next on the agenda is 32 nanometres, which AMD will hopefully introduce 18 to 24 months after the 45-nanometre chips arrive in production volumes, he said. Intel is already shipping a 65-nanometre chip, its Core Duo processor.
[June 2, 2006, 9:10]
Applied Uses Atom To Shrink Chips
News Depositing materials in such a way will be a requirement in building future chips with 65-nanometre features, the company said. A nanometre is a billionth of a metre. Currently, the fastest chips are made with the 130-nanometre process, which means...
[July 23, 2002, 11:31]
IBM And AMD Form Chip Alliance
News The nanometre measurement refers to the miniumum size of features on a chip. Under the deal, the two companies will develop semiconductor manufacturing technologies for 65-nanometre and 45-nanometre chips from AMD.
[January 9, 2003, 9:32]
AMD's Dual-core Plans Keep Heat On Intel
News Dr William Siegel, AMD’s chief scientist, told ZDNet UK at the launch of the Athlon 64 in Cannes, France, on Tuesday that the company will launch a dual-core 64-bit processor on the 90-nanometre process -- a figure characterised by the size of the...
[September 24, 2003, 11:40]
Samsung To Share IBM's Chips
News The nanometre measurement, which is often used to describe a generation of chip manufacturing technology, also refers to the average distances between features inside a chip. The partnership will help the companies move to the next generation in...
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
PlayStation 3 Chip To Arrive In 2005
News Sony also said it is planning to begin manufacturing a new chip for the PlayStation 2 this month, shrinking the existing architecture to a 90-nanometre manufacturing process. The Cell chip, planned to be a thousand times more powerful than the PS2...
[October 9, 2003, 17:15]
Sun Stakes Servers On Rock
News A successor called Niagara 2 also is in development, a processor that, like Rock, will use a 65-nanometre production process. Rock requires the next-generation 65 nanometre process, which will let more circuitry be squeezed onto a single silicon chip.
[July 20, 2004, 9:15]
AMD Starts Shipping Its 65nm Chips
News The nanometre figure refers to the average size of features on the chip; a nanometre is a billionth of a metre). AMD has started to ship chips made on the 65-nanometre process, as the manufacturing spat with Intel heats up.
[December 5, 2006, 8:23]
IBM Reaches Chip Milestone
News IBM's current generation of semiconductors is built using a 130 nanometre manufacturing process -- the nanometre measurement refers to the average size of features inside chips produced via the process, features such as transistors and the...
[December 16, 2002, 7:31]
Intel Shows Off Next-generation Production Tricks
News Intel has announced its first test production of four-megabit static memories using 65-nanometre technology. Key developments in the new process have included ways to create features with a greater precision than the wavelength of light used would...
[November 24, 2003, 20:25]
IDF: Intel Sees Dual-core Itanium By 2005
News Intel will make the move either using its next-generation manufacturing process, which can create circuitry with 90-nanometre features, or using the 65-nanometre generation after that, Fister said. Itanium 2 currently is built on a 180-nanometre...
[September 11, 2002, 8:02]
AMD Grants Win EU Approval
News The nanometre measurement, one billionth of a metre, refers to the size of the tiny features inside each chip. The plant will eventually turn out chips at the 65-nanometre level, AMD has said. AMD is currently producing 130-nanometre chips and...
[February 6, 2004, 15:30]
Intel Readies Expanded Chip Lineup
News It marks the first time the less expensive chip will be built using 65-nanometre technology. Presler, the successor to Smithfield, features two physically separate Cedar Mill processor cores in a single package.
[October 13, 2005, 12:40]
IBM Backs £54m Supercomputer Centre
News At the Rensselaer supercomputing centre, scientists will attempt to design transistors and other devices measuring only a few nanometres long (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre) and simulate how different atoms and materials interact.
[May 12, 2006, 10:45]
Intel Unveils Dual-core Details
News The same timeframe will see the transition to 65-nanometre architectures: by 2008, the company predicted, performance of the chips will be 10 times that of today's single-core Pentium 4. Intel has previously said that it plans to introduce...
[December 15, 2004, 15:00]
