On Nov. 12, Intel will begin shipping its first chips using a completely new processes technology.
The hafnium and high insulator gate process, developed at Intel, are expected to maintain their process lead and will be used to create chips with 45 nanometer dimensions.
The NY Times has a profile on Mark Bohr an Intel fellow who helped sheppard the new technology to fruition at Hillsboro’s D1D plant.
Robert Scoble has a fascinating tour inside Intel’s new 45 nanometer fab in Hillsboro, Oregon and talked to Intel Senior Fellow, Mark Bohr who gave Bob a rare look inside Intel’s newest fab. Bohr explains how High-K dielectrics are keeping Moore’s Law alive (for the immediate future, anyway).
The 45 nanometer process technology will be used in Wolfdale CPUs slated for desktops while Penryn is a dual-core 45-nanometer chip specifically designed for notebooks and due in 2008.
The first 45nm chip out the gate this November will be the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650. It runs at 3.0 GHz with a 1333 MHz FSB and 12 MB L2 cache. Yorkfield and Wolfdale CPUs use the new process. The Yorkfield XE (the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650), is a quad-core processor built from two 45 nm Wolfdale processor dies.
Penryn for laptops won’t happen until next year.
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