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Intel working hard on 22nm CPUs

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22nm?

fudzilla said:
Getting ready for the future

Intel engineers are currently designing their entire 22nm generation and even if this sounds like the very distant future, you can expect the first 22nm CPUs probably at some point in 2011. This is of course the current plan that Intel can achieve if it doesn’t end up with some major issues that can delay things.

In 2009, Intel should be launching Westmere, a 32nm CPU, and you should see it as a Nehalem 32nm derivate, but already in 2010 Intel plans to launch a new architecture 32nm codenamed Sandy Bridge.

In 2011 Sandy bridge 32nm will get its „tick version“ or should we say derived Sandy bridge in 22nm but at this point we don't know the name. A year after, in 2012 Intel should have a brand new CPU architecture in 22nm. We have confirmed that Intel engineers are working on 22nm stuff and as you can imagine, it should have more cache, more cores and end up faster than anything we have today.
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There was something on here a while back about other materials they could use instead of silicon that would allow them go even smaller, just its quite costly to produce in bulk at this time.
 
StephenLawUK said:
There was something on here a while back about other materials they could use instead of silicon that would allow them go even smaller, just its quite costly to produce in bulk at this time.
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Wasn't something like Graphene created here in the UK at Manchester University
 
We need 2^N core CPU's please :)


with 22nm they will be able to fit couple hundred cores is a reasonable size home PC :D


and .. once all game developers manage to code each object in the game to use it's own core we will be all set! :p
 
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Theguy said:
I guess theres a limit of how small silicon can go? or is there?
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Yes. The width of silicon atoms (or rather the separation between atoms in the lattice they produce), as well as the size of the other substances used for the doping, creates an absolute limit on the minimum process size. But really, we are increasingly seeing problems due to other quantum phenomena (like quantum tunneling). This is one of the main reasons that per-core performance has levelled off significantly in the last 5 years or so.
 
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