Posted on 12/06/2007 7:59:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Japan's Toshiba Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp. said on Tuesday they would jointly develop 32-nanometre chips to better keep up with rivals.
The companies will continue talks about jointly producing the chips, and aim to reach a decision in 2008, they said.
The two had also approached Fujitsu Ltd, but spokesman Etsuro Yamada declined to comment on whether or not Fujitsu would join the group, only saying that "Fujitsu was considering various options."
Chip makers are racing to halve the production cost per function of a chip every year or two.
Samsung Electronics Co., IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., Infineon Technologies, and Freescale Semiconductor said in May they would work together on 32-nanometre chips. A nanometre is a billionth of a metre.
The group has since been joined by STMicroelectronics.
Such moves have worried Japanese chip makers, which have been talking about but not acting on how to share the estimated 100-200 billion yen costs to develop the new chips, which would require less power to run more applications on cellphones, PCs and other electronics.
(Excerpt) Read more at investing.reuters.co.uk ...
Wal-Mart’s $200 PC - sold out (10,000 sold...running Linux Ubuntu)
ZDNET | November 13th, 2007 | Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Posted on 11/13/2007 2:19:21 PM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Correction, Intel has already fab’d a 32nm test chip.
Not a correction, I said that Intel was producing 45nm, not prototyping them.
What is illumination source for 45nm lines?
Noone ever listen to Zathras.
a 44 nm flashlight, I guess. ;’)
Intel Cites Breakthrough in Transistor Design
Reuters
Posted on 11/26/2001 2:14:23 PM EST by milestogo
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Intel to start fab plant in China
The Inquirer | 8-7-2002 | Mike Magee
Posted on 08/07/2002 10:25:09 AM EDT by JameRetief
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The hidden currents powering Intel’s next gen chips ~~
Another major change coming????
the Inquirer | Thursday 18 August 2005, 07:20 | Nicholas Blachford:
Posted on 08/19/2005 1:33:50 PM EDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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IBM Builds Nanotube Chip
Red Herring | 3/23/06
Posted on 03/24/2006 4:36:37 AM EST by Straight Vermonter
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[snip] Creating carbon nanotube transistors has been done before, but figuring out a reliable way to assemble them to form an IC has stumped many bright minds. Wiring together transistors developed from a single carbon nanotube is an even more difficult task. But the IBM research team did it. With an 18-micron long carbon nanotube, the scientists built a 10-transistor ring oscillator, a device typically constructed to test new manufacturing technologies or materials. Using one instead of many carbon nanotubes to build an IC reduces the manufacturing steps and therefore cost. [end]
Altair Nanotechnologies Details
Power Features of Its Nano Titanate Battery
Nanotechwire.com | 9/15/2006 6:13:50 PM | Not Specified
Posted on 09/17/2006 2:46:42 PM EDT by PeaceBeWithYou
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A Step Closer to Nanotube Computers
MIT Technology Review | Prachi Patel-Predd
Posted on 11/14/2006 11:25:38 PM EST by annie laurie
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Intel Says Chips Will Run Faster, Using Less Power
Drudge, New York Times | January 27, 2007 | John Markoff
Posted on 01/27/2007 2:32:30 PM EST by skeptoid
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IBM, Intel pace each other with improved transistors
Macworld | January 27, 2007 11:57 am ET
Ben Ames, IDG News Service and Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service
Posted on 01/27/2007 2:57:21 PM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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IBM, AMD and Intel Fight for Supremacy in 45nm Chip Technology
playfuls.com | 06:44 PM, January 27th 2007 | Dan Nicolae Alexa
Posted on 01/27/2007 9:49:53 PM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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IBM, Intel Reach Chip Milestone in Dead Heat
TechNewsWorld TechNewsWorld | 01/29/07 2:31 PM PT | Walaika Haskins TechNewsWorld
Posted on 01/29/2007 6:32:05 PM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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I.B.M. Reports a Speed Record for a Type of Computer Memory...major speed ...
New York Times | February 14, 2007 | John Markoff
Posted on 02/14/2007 7:11:44 PM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Updated: Intel confirms $2.5 billion fab in China
EE Times | 03/26/2007 11:28 AM EDT | Mike Clendenin
Posted on 03/26/2007 2:52:28 PM EDT by indthkr
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China claims microprocessor technology breakthrough
Whampoa Financial
Posted on 06/26/2007 10:10:24 AM EDT by Rock N Jones
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Maryland Professor Creates Desktop Supercomputer
PhysOrg | 6/26/07
Posted on 06/27/2007 2:50:49 PM EDT by LibWhacker
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IBM announces nanotechnology achievements
UPI | 08/30/07
Posted on 08/30/2007 8:31:06 PM EDT by nypokerface
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Intel versus ARM for the mobile computer
CNET | September 19, 2007 5:00 PM PDT | Tom Krazit
Posted on 09/20/2007 1:24:31 PM EDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Game-changer:
Asus Eee PC a win for Intel and Linux, at Microsoft’s expense
ArsTechnica | November 05, 2007 | Jon Stokes
Posted on 11/05/2007 6:33:14 PM EST by twntaipan
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Wal-Mart’s $200 PC - sold out (10,000 sold...running Linux Ubuntu)
ZDNET | November 13th, 2007 | Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Posted on 11/13/2007 2:19:21 PM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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AMD delays Phenom 2.4 GHz due to TLB errata
theinquirer.net | Sunday, 18 November 2007, 5:29 PM | Theo Valich
Posted on 11/19/2007 12:38:44 AM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Sony Might Have Gotten It Right with the PS3 from the Beginning
Softpedia | November 5th, 2007 | Filip Truta
Posted on 11/25/2007 1:38:14 PM EST by SunkenCiv
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And that means they've already started design on their 32nm chips. From what I've read on how it works at Intel, this 45nm run is the previous generation design shrunk. While one team was trying to get the 65nm design to work at 45nm, they passed all they learned to another team working on the next-generation architecture at 45nm so they can concentrate more on design instead of the physics problems of a smaller process. This whole thing cycles for each die shrink.
But what that means is the guys who designed the 45nm current-gen are probably working on trying to get the current state of next-gen to work on 32nm. And the Japanese aren't starting work until 2008? They're behind already.
No harm done. :’)
AMD Resurrects K8 Architecture for 2008 RoadmapLast week AMD CEO Hector Ruiz vowed that the company would stop hemorrhaging cash and return to profitability soon. "That is our number one goal right now," Ruiz said in a conference in Bangalore... The company will introduce eleven 65nm K8 processors over the next two quarters... Essentially, AMD will move any remaining Athlon 64 processors from the 90nm node to the 65nm node, with a few new frequency and TDP variations. The AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ will be the first to jump on the new 65nm K8 bandwagon with a 65W TDP. The previous Windsor-based chip of the same featured an 89-Watt TDP. AMD will also add 100 MHz to the core frequency of the Athlon 64 X2 5600+, now rated at 2.9 GHz. Total L2 cache will be halved in the move to the Brisbane core, and the updated Athlon 64 X2 5600+ chips will feature only 1MB of L2 cache. Availability of these processors is scheduled for Q1 2008... AMD will also update its "Energy Efficient" series and will release three new chips, the AMD Athlon 4850e, Athlon 4450e, and Athlon 4050e in Q2 2008. All of the new offerings will be based on AMD's Brisbane core and will feature a 45-Watt thermal envelope... All new Brisbane chips will be based on the Socket AM2 interface. These processors are compatible with AMD's AM2+ socket designated for Phenom processors.
by Kristopher Kubicki
and Gabriel Ikram
December 5, 2007
Getting more from Moore’s Law
BBC News | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 | Jonathan Fildes
Posted on 12/06/2007 1:57:44 PM EST by SunkenCiv
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You basically have three choices on a shrink: lower the power, up the clock or put in more stuff. Or some balance of two or three.
I'm sad about AMD because I've always liked their chips, and I don't know if they can weather being second-best as well as Intel did. We need competition, it's the only thing that woke Intel up from the Pentium 4 days to produce the great chips they make now.
AMD is #2, and it’s much smaller, and according to something I read a few weeks ago, its acquisition of ATI was financially difficult, and may turn out to have been a bet-the-company maneuver. AMD had planned to build a fab facility in upstate NY, but I think that plan has been on hold for while (could easily be wrong, but the website for the CoC there said that it was still coming, not already there). Meanwhile, Intel’s 45nm move will allow lower cost fab; add that to the at-least-equal capability, and it does look bad.
However, AMD will still have some internal design advantages, and will begin 45nm fab in a few months, cutting its costs and holding on to customer base. Its time of growth is over, unless it moves production to China / India. Of course, Intel has already started that direction, and there’s this:
China claims microprocessor technology breakthrough
Whampoa Financial
Posted on 06/26/2007 10:10:24 AM EDT by Rock N Jones
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Toshiba helps Sony cut PS3 production costs
TechSpot.com | February 20, 2008 | Jose Vilches
Posted on 02/23/2008 10:51:26 PM EST by SunkenCiv
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