Download the authoritative guide: Cloud Computing 2019: Using the Cloud for Competitive Advantage
AMD demonstrated its first 45nm processor designs at the giant CeBit trade show in Hanover, Germany this week and said it is on track to release 45nm processors in the second half of this year.
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) made the move to 45nm late last year and in the process switched its manufacturing process, dropping the silicon dioxide that gave the Silicon Valley its name and instead using hafnium oxide. This reduced leakage in the chips and lowered the heat they gave off in the process.
AMD (NYSE:AMD) has its own high-k metal gate technology via its semiconductor partner IBM. However, it is not going to the new hafnium design with these processors, at least not initially.
https://o1.qnsr.com/log/p.gif?;n=203;c=204660774;s=9478;x=7936;f=201812281339040;u=j;z=TIMESTAMP;a=20403972;e=iThis is typical of AMD, which does not make too many major changes at once. Intel, for example, went to 45nm and high-k metal gate at the same time, which is a major effort. For the smaller AMD, it typically makes one change at a time, notes Jim McGregor, senior analyst with In-Stat.
In this case, AMD's going to 45nm first and said moving to a new material, hafnium, will come later. McGregor said for now, AMD doesn't have to make the transition to hafnium. "At 45 nanometers, you're not at that physics brick wall where you can't do it, but getting to metal gates eventually is required," he told InternetNews.com. "As you get to smaller design processes like 32nm and 22nm, you absolutely need it [hafnium] because the smaller you get the more leakage you get."
The first chips to sport the new 45nm design are a quad-core desktop codenamed "Deneb" and a Quad Core Opteron server chip called "Shanghai." Kevin Knox, vice president of worldwide business marketing for AMD, called Shanghai "the most significant architecture change since Opteron."
This article was first published on InternetNews.com. To read the full article, click here.
RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS
-
Top Machine Learning Solutions
FEATURE | By Samuel Greengard,
February 14, 2019
-
Google Machine Learning Engine: Product Overview and Insight
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Samuel Greengard,
February 14, 2019
-
Alteryx: Product Overview and Insight
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Samuel Greengard,
February 14, 2019
-
SAP Leonardo: Product Overview and Insight
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Samuel Greengard,
February 14, 2019
-
RapidMiner: Product Overview and Insight
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Samuel Greengard,
February 14, 2019
-
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio: Product Overview and Insight
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Samuel Greengard,
February 14, 2019
-
IBM Watson Studio: Product Overview and Insight
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Samuel Greengard,
February 14, 2019
-
SAS Visual Machine Learning: Product Overview and Insight
FEATURE | By Samuel Greengard,
February 14, 2019
-
AWS SageMaker: Product Overview and Insight
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Samuel Greengard,
February 14, 2019
-
Artificial Intelligence in Business: Using AI in Your Company
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Daniel Dern,
February 08, 2019
-
How IBM’s Project Debater Could Fix Facebook
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Rob Enderle,
January 21, 2019
-
IBM Announces Most Powerful AI Effort Yet: The Birth of Smart HR
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Rob Enderle,
December 07, 2018
-
IBM Spectrum Discover: AI at Scale
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Rob Enderle,
October 26, 2018
-
The Top Cloud-Based AI Services
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Andy Patrizio,
September 11, 2018
-
Artificial Intelligence Salaries: Paychecks Heading Skyward
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Andy Patrizio,
August 28, 2018
-
Artificial Intelligence Use Cases
FEATURE | By Samuel Greengard,
August 13, 2018
-
25 Top AI Startups
FEATURE | By Andy Patrizio,
July 18, 2018
-
CIOs Leveraging AI and Machine Learning For ITSM Goals
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Jeff Kaplan,
July 03, 2018
-
35 Artificial Intelligence Courses
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Cynthia Harvey,
May 04, 2018
-
Top 15 Machine Learning Companies
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | By Andy Patrizio,
April 19, 2018
Submit a Comment
Loading Comments...