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<div class="news_item">#300<div class="news_title">Interesting speculation on Intel's long-term gameplan

Posted by dandriff on Friday September 19, 2008@09:17AM

Interesting /. post which speculates on what Intel's long-term (e.g. for the next 12 or 13 years) strategy is going to be.
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Here is a copy:

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<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;">What a joke of an article. Every semiconductor manufacturer has several generations of process in various states in the lab. Woo IBM's showing sneak peaks at 22nm!</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;">I met with an Intel VP [intel.com] for an interview a while back and talked about where things are going. He had some nice lab-pr0n of what the photos claimed were 11nm transistors. I believe it was said that was "about 15 years out", and meant to offer reassurance that Moore's Law still had a bit more time left to go.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;">Actually here, let me go dig up my transcript so I can get a proper quote:

<i><div style="text-indent:2em;padding-left:1em;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:1em;"> You're going to see that platforms are going to continue to evolve. We're moving to a faster cadence. The processor cadence is about a two year cadence, in terms of process technologies. By the way this is interesting. We know how to do Moore's Law for about another fifteen years which we've never had that kind of length of projection before. ...it sort of takes 3D transistors and all that, but we know how to do these things. It's all using standard silicon, it's CMOS it's extraordinarily well charactarized right? But we've got transistors running at 11 nanometers, I can show you photographs of them. We have the leakage issues but we've got a very good plan. </div></i></p>

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;">That was 2 years ago, early October 2006. Who leapfrogged what now?</p></div>