Intel shows 22nm chips for the first time

Dan Warne
23 September 2009, 9:20 AM


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Two words, spoken with a strong John Cleese, bad French accent: "wafer-thin!!!"


Check it out: that's a wafer with real, working 22nm chips. The chips on that wafer pack 2.9 billion transistors in the space the size of a fingernail -- double the density of the current 32nm chips.



The wafer is a bunch of SRAM chips -- static random access memory that is often used for L1 and L2 processor caches.

CPUs based on the 22nm manufacturing process will be available by 2011. Intel Atom is also headed down to 22nm and even 15nm.

Dan Warne is attending the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco as a guest of Intel.

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Me In Oz (User):

WOW !
just wondering how far they can go before quantum tunnelling has an effect?

23 September 2009, 1:39 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Aubrey (New user):

"Dan Warne is attending the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco as a guest of Intel."

And here was I thinking it must be just Intel Appreciation Week at APC. I'm glad these adds (I mean articles) are being paid for. Did the Olay people pay for his last trip?

23 September 2009, 1:48 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Aubrey (New user):

"quantum tunnelling" ??

Is that where the tiny elves who make these things have to dispose of the left over silicon molecules by hiding them in their trouser cuffs and dumping them in the exercise ground? Or are they still doing the tunnelling under the vaulting horse?

23 September 2009, 1:51 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

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