TI Strides Towards 65 Nanometres
News Along with the tremendous increase in functionality TI will offer at 65 nanometres with highly integrated designs, we are taking significant steps to lead the industry in managing the power those designs consume.
[March 23, 2004, 10:20]
Applied Uses Atom To Shrink Chips
News Currently, the fastest chips are made with the 130-nanometre process, which means that circuits inside the chip measure about 130 nanometres wide. By shrinking the average feature size to 65 nanometres, companies can cut the size of the processors...
[July 23, 2002, 11:31]
Wanted: Successor To Flash Memory
News Chipmakers are currently selling so-called 130-nanometre chips and will soon make the move to 90 nanometres. Barring breakthroughs, the technology will need to be replaced by the time it gets to 45 nanometres, near the end of the decade, said Craig...
[December 11, 2002, 11:37]
Applied Materials Polishes Black Diamond
News A number of 90-nanometer chips will contain low-k layers, "but once you get to 65 nanometres it becomes a necessity," MacWilliams said. While chipmakers are putting low-capacitance materials into subtransistor levels, most also are working on ways...
[February 5, 2004, 8:00]
Intel Unveils New Chip Manufacturing Technology
News Technically, these chips can be classified as nanotechnology parts because their components will measure less than 100 nanometres across. Shrinking it (the gate oxide) to 65 nanometres is going to be pretty tough," he said.
[August 13, 2002, 7:39]
Intel Turns Up The Heat On AMD
News Every day will make the wafer costs go down because we will have better utilisation and the die costs will go down due to the conversion to 65-nanometres," Rivet said. Intel, however, made the move to 65 nanometres in the fourth quarter of 2005...
[October 26, 2006, 14:50]
AMD Sets A Course For 2008
News However, AMD's plan is to move from 65 nanometres to 45 nanometres in 18 months, which will allow it to chip away at Intel's advantage, Ostrander said. Later in the day, Ostrander said that the 18-month turnaround for 45 nanometres was set because...
[June 2, 2006, 9:10]
Intel Opens 65nm Ireland Factory
News The $2bn (£1bn) factory, based in Leixlip, Ireland, gives the chip giant a wider lead at 65 nanometres. Intel has opened a third chip plant focused on 65-nanometre processes as it moves ahead with its latest array of multicore microprocessors.
[June 26, 2006, 9:35]
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]
IBM Teams Up With Singapore's Chartered
News Chips with components measuring 65 nanometres will likely emerge in late 2005. IBM and Chartered Semiconductor have formed an alliance to jointly develop chipmaking technology and share factory capacity, the latest deal designed to take some of the...
[November 27, 2002, 9:15]
AMD And Intel Battle For Next-gen Servers
News Current Xeons are built using a process with circuitry elements measuring 65 nanometres; a nanometre is a billionth of a metre. Intel and AMD, already fighting over today's customers, held simultaneous meetings on Wednesday to try to turn attention...
[March 1, 2007, 8:23]
Sun Stakes Servers On Rock
News Current processors are built using a manufacturing process with chip features measuring 90 nanometres, or billionths of a meter. The Rock processor family, along with lower-end Niagara models, will employ a design called chip multithreading to let...
[July 20, 2004, 9:15]
Sony To Sink £1bn Into 'Cell' Console Chip
News The plant will use industry-leading circuitry widths of 65 nanometres, compared with the 90-nanometre widths found in today's most advanced chips. More details about the highly secretive "Cell" processor -- set to power upcoming Sony consumer...
[April 24, 2003, 7:31]
IBM Conserves Power With New Chip
News In addition, it said Power6 would be built using a manufacturing process in which chip features are 65 nanometres in length. The Dynamic Power Management technology can execute "50 percent more instructions using same amount of energy, without any...
[October 15, 2003, 8:40]
Sun And Fujitsu To Boost Sparc Speed
News The Sparc64 V and UltraSparc TI are built with manufacturing processes that can create electronics elements measuring 90 nanometres. Sun and Fujitsu engineers on Tuesday promised significant performance increases with two next-generation chips...
[October 11, 2006, 9:20]
AMD Grants Win EU Approval
News AMD is currently producing 130-nanometre chips and hopes to move to 90 nanometres this year, roughly the same time as other chip leaders. The European Union has approved grants by the German and Saxon governments for Advanced Micro Devices' second...
[February 6, 2004, 15:30]
IDF: Intel Sees Dual-core Itanium By 2005
News With 90-nanometre manufacturing, an Itanium would be about 150 nanometres, Brookwood said, so a dual-core Itanium would be roughly 300 square millimetres, a practical size. Intel plans to cross an important technology threshold midway through the...
[September 11, 2002, 8:02]
Intel Sets The Date For Madison 9M
News The Itanium 2 9M is built on a manufacturing process with circuitry dimensions of 130 nanometres, or 130bnths of a metre, Intel said. Intel's newest top-line Itanium 2 processor is due to arrive on 8 November, according to sources familiar with the...
[November 1, 2004, 7:29]
Motorola Tech Gets Flashy
News But many believe floating gate will start to break down once cells become smaller than 90 nanometres, or, as others have it, 65 nanometres. Motorola later this month will detail some of its efforts to increase the capacity of flash memory -- chips...
[February 7, 2003, 10:46]
News Schmooze: Chips Learn To Communicate
News For example, new memory technologies that use photons, nanometres and very tiny magical fairies to be able to store the contents of the British Library in your Walkman. Intel unveiled a good number of new products and initiatives this week at its...
[March 1, 2002, 16:36]
