Intel's 3D Tri-Gate transistors get smaller, faster, more energy efficient (photos)
by ZDNet Author | May 4, 2011 3:00pm PDT | Image 1 of 8
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Intel today announced what it called a major technical breakthrough and historic innovation in microprocessing, introducing a 3D transistor called Tri-Gate that will result in both performance and power improvements in the 22-nanometer "Ivy Bridge" chips.
Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's architecture group, holds a silicon wafer produced using the new 22nm 3D manufacturing process.
Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's architecture group, holds a silicon wafer produced using the new 22nm 3D manufacturing process.
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RE: Intel's 3D Tri-Gate transistors get smaller, faster, more energy efficient (photos)
So - what is Intel going to do with it? When will we see components made with this technology that we can build into our own computers? I'm still waiting for Lightpeak. Or is that now thundersomething? I'd like to see a 10 to 100 Gigabit 'USB, Network and monitor' replacement connections.
@BigJRM Er, it's a transistor, so they're putting it on their new Ivy Bridge Processors. It's allowing them to make processors faster and smaller, without increasing the power usage for once.
It's about time and sort of a risk, but I'm real glad to see this finally come about. I've wondered for a long time why this didn't happen and the uses for such are humongous, IMO! 3-D or not, I can imagine all kinds of improvements for computer systems of most any kind.
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