Intel does a press release about shiny new chips and decides to give some website camera clearance and a guided tour of their research facilities, Q and A provided by Director of Process Architecture and Integration and Senior Fellow Mark Bohr. Cool, great this should be interesting. Oh, wait, what the hell Arstechnica? You were moving so Scoble gets the interview?
I mean, moving sucks and all but I really would have liked to have heard some more detailed questions given the setting. This is just like that time the dude at Tim Hortons left the crullers defenseless while he went to get a roll of nickels to make change only I couldn't decide if I wanted glazed or not and he caught me behind the counter trying to make up my mind. Another fantastic opportunity ... wasted due to bad planning.
Grumble grumble grumbling.
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It'll be interesting to see what Intel does with this, whether they focus more on pushing UP forther, or scaling back and going for multi-cores. Intel has long considered 45nm a quick fix for their massive current leakage problems which largely prohibits them from moving forward, so it will be interesting to see whether it actually has any effect for them or not. Many other vendors are equally dismayed about the state of leakage in the larger processes.
I'm not sure what the fuss is about though, we've been doing discrete components at 45nm for almost a year already on this side of the pond.. it's nice to see Intel catching up with the times, though.
Here's some stuff on the 32nm plans, if you're interested:
http://www.eetasia.com/ART_8800451514_480200_ad16ed87200702_no.HTM
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