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Intel Pushes the Computing Continuum Down the 22nm Voltage Scale

by Peter Kastner on May 24, 2011 in Mobile Technology, Personal Computing, Semiconductors

Intel laid out its plans to aggressively use its new 22nm silicon process to dramatically lower processor voltages while actually improving performance over the next 30 months, the company told financial analysts at a conference on May 17 at headquarters in Santa Clara, California. What analysts heard was by far the clearest picture for a [...]

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Thoughts on Intel’s New 22nm 3D Transistors

by Peter Kastner on May 5, 2011 in Emerging Technology, Mobile Technology, Personal Computing, Semiconductors

Intel’s announcement yesterday announced the next generation of transistor process at 22 nm. New products based on the 22 nm transistors will begin arriving with the Ivy Bridge family in early 2012. What was not expected was that Intel would bet the fab on a radically new way of laying down transistors that puts the [...]

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NVIDIA: Poised for a Mobile Future on the Brink of Amazing

by Rob Enderle on March 17, 2011 in Semiconductors

At last week’s analyst event NVIDIA was on message with Tegra 2 success and Tegra 3 promise as they repositioned the company against the Smartphone and Tablet markets that are likely to define the increasingly mobile future.  This future is being called the Post-PC era though I think it should be called the rebirth of [...]

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How Intel is Scaling to Meet the Decade’s Opportunities

How Intel is Scaling to Meet the Decade’s Opportunities

by Peter Kastner on February 18, 2011 in Data Center, IT Suppliers, Mobile Technology, Personal Computing, Semiconductors

Eighteen months ago, Intel announced it would address the world’s rapidly growing computing continuum by investing in variations on the Intel Architecture (IA). It was met with a ho-hum. Now, many product families are beginning to emerge from the development labs and head towards production. All with IA DNA, these chip families are designed to [...]

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