New Processor Technology...

I was surfing through several technical sites to find out what new technologies have raised in the hardware field then I found this interesting innovation by Intel then thought to introduce it in my blog to you all… Intel unveiled their next innovation, the Hafnium based Intel 45nm Process Technology Which is, according to Gordon Moore [ Intel co-founder ], The biggest change in Transistor Technology in 40 Years. This new 45nm has following benefits over its big brother, 65nm technology.

• 45nm can store approximately twice the transistor density, for lower chip sises or increased transistor counts.
• Approximately 30% reduction of transistor-switching power.
• Greater than 20-percent improvement in transistor-switching speed or a greater than 5 times reduction in source-drain leakage power.
• Greater than 10 times reduction in transistor gate oxide leakage for lower power requirements and increased battery life.

Intel has introduced its smallest chip which is called Atom where they have assembled 47 million transistors on a single chip measuring less than 25mm² while still delivering the power and performance we need.

Do you want to feel how small this technology is…?

• There are 1 billion nanometers (nm) in one meter. A meter is approximately 3 feet. ? The original transistor built by Bell Labs in 1947 could be held in your hand, while hundreds of Intel’s new 45nm transistors can fit on the surface of a single red blood cell.
• If a house shrunk at the same pace transistors have, you would not be able to see a house without a microscope. To see the 45nm transistor, you need a very advanced microscope.
• You could fit more than 2,000 45nm transistor gates across the width of a human hair.
• You could fit more than 30 million 45nm transistors onto the head of a pin, which measures approximately 1.5 million nm (1.5 mm) in diameter.
• More than 2 million 45nm transistors could fit on the period at the end of this sentence (estimated to be 1/10 square millimeter in area).
• A 45nm transistor can switch on and off approximately 300 billion times a second. A beam of light travels less than a tenth of an inch during the time it takes a 45nm transistor to switch on and off.

Isn’t this interesting… ?

Intel Logos for Atom Processors: