- 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.
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.
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