Intel Planning 22nm Processors

Category: CPU's
Posted: September 22, 2009 03:26PM
Author: CheeseMan42

While AMD made an announcement for more cores, Intel is going for more transistors. Moore's Law appears alive and well, as the new 22nm process from Intel will be able to pack 2.9 billion transistors onto a chip the size of your fingernail. Eventually the physics of transistors will stop the progress, but who knows when that will be. Intel displayed a wafer of chips built on this technology, with SRAM and logic circuits built into the chips. The processors should be available in the second half of 2011.

Any news on the release date of Gulftown?

I believe Gulftown is based on the 32nm process, so it should be at some point before then. A quick Google lead me to Q2 2010, not sure how accurate that is.