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Xilinx approaches 90-nanometre goal
News Xilinx has 90-nanometre chips in hand. The chipmaker said on Monday that it has begun shipping its first new 90-nanometre field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips in small quantities. Xilinx is one of the first few chipmakers to start down the...
[April 1, 2003, 10:55]
IBM powers up 90-nanometre process
News The tech giant plans to announce on Friday that it has started mass production of PowerPCs on the 90-nanometre process, which refers to the average feature size on the chips. A nanometre is a billionth of a meter.
[February 13, 2004, 8:10]
BASF and IBM team up for 32-nanometre chips
News BASF is working with IBM on the chemicals and materials needed for the next-generation 32-nanometre microprocessors. It currently plans to introduce 45-nanometre (nm) microprocessors in 2008. Under a joint agreement, BASF and IBM will develop...
[June 25, 2007, 15:53]
AMD passes 90-nanometre milestone
News Later this quarter, AMD will begin turning out 90-nanometre Athlon 64s for desktop PCs, the company said in a statement. The chipmaker confirmed on Tuesday that, as previously reported, it has begun manufacturing chips using its new 90-nanometre...
[August 18, 2004, 9:00]
AMD starts shipping its 65nm chips
News AMD has started to ship chips made on the 65-nanometre process, as the manufacturing spat with Intel heats up. AMD chips made on the 65-nanometre (nm) process will consume about 30 percent less energy than the same chips produced on the 90nm...
[December 5, 2006, 8:23]
Intel finalises design of Penryn chip
News Intel has completed the design of Penryn, a 45-nanometre (nm) chip that will be out toward the end of next year. The nanometre measurements refer to the length of structures inside the chip. A nanometre is a billionth of a metre and is derived from...
[November 30, 2006, 8:43]
Intel opens 65nm Ireland factory
News Intel has opened a third chip plant focused on 65-nanometre processes as it moves ahead with its latest array of multicore microprocessors. Intel was one of the first chipmakers to ship 65-nanometre chips late last year.
[June 26, 2006, 9:35]
IBM and AMD form chip alliance
News Under the deal, the two companies will develop semiconductor manufacturing technologies for 65-nanometre and 45-nanometre chips from AMD. The 65-nanometre chips are likely to emerge in 2005, with 45-nanometre chips following in 2007.
[January 9, 2003, 9:32]
Strained silicon speeds AMD's chips
News The strained silicon is being incorporated into all of AMD's 90-nanometre chips, which the company has just started shipping to PC makers. The technology also will be added to 130-nanometre chips that will be released this quarter, an AMD...
[August 20, 2004, 8:50]
Chipmakers join forces on nano research
News The companies will develop chips based on the 65- and 45-nanometre (or 0.065 and 0.045 micron) processes. The nanometre measurement refers to the size of the conducting threads within the processor's core.
[July 30, 2002, 13:14]
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]
IBM teams up with Singapore's Chartered
News Under the deal, IBM Microelectronics and Singapore's Chartered, a foundry that makes chips on behalf of companies that don't have their own factories, will jointly develop manufacturing processes for 90-nanometre chips and 65-nanometre chips on...
[November 27, 2002, 9:15]
Sun starts work on Niagara 3
News This new member of the Sparc family will be built using a manufacturing process with 45-nanometre circuitry elements, he said. Niagara 1 is built with a 90-nanometre process; Niagara 2 will be built using a 65-nanometre process that permits more...
[October 19, 2006, 9:50]
IBM, AMD team up to strain silicon
News Chips containing DSL are quietly already being sold, but both companies will start to use it in chips built on their 90-nanometre production processes in the first quarter, which will lead to greater proliferation.
[December 13, 2004, 8:15]
Intel shrinks chips to 90 nanometres
News More importantly, the chips show that Intel is still comfortably meeting Moore's Law, as they were made using the 90-nanometre manufacturing process. Currently, the fastest chips are made on the 130-nanometre process, which means that circuits...
[March 12, 2002, 16:48]
Intel sees Moore's Law wall ahead
News In chips made on a 16-nanometre technology process, the transistor gate will be about five nanometres long. A nanometre is a billionth of a metre. Manufacturers will be able to produce chips on the 16-nanometre manufacturing process, expected by...
[December 2, 2003, 14:20]
Samsung to share IBM's chips
News The partnership will help the companies move to the next generation in chip manufacturing, known as the 65-nanometre process, and later to progress to the 45-nanometre process. The nanometre measurement, which is often used to describe a generation...
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
Researchers create single electron memory cells
News This Coulomb blockage takes place on a nanometre scale, and depends on single electrons tunnelling into and out of a tiny pool of other electrons called a quantum dot. The team at the Microelectronics Research Centre at Cambridge University's...
[June 21, 2001, 17:25]
Chip heavyweights hope alliance adds up
News A nanometre, equal to 1 millionth of a metre, is used to measure the distance between transistors. The companies' main focus will be on creating new manufacturing techniques that allow them to produce more advanced "system-on-a-chip" processors...
[April 14, 2002, 7:31]
EU invests millions in nanotech research
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. A nanometre is a billionth of a meter.
[March 9, 2004, 8:25]
