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Intel's 45nm Patch Machinery Exposed

Posted by kdawson on from the tick-and-tock dept.

Roboticles writes "Tweakers.net paid a visit to Intel's laboratories in the California town of Folsom, the birthplace of the 45nm CPU. We spoke to lead architect Stephen Fisher about the development of the Penryn chip and the day the first A0 version arrived. We were shown the machinery used to test and patch the 45nm processor, which is currently being manufactured in Arizona for release next month."

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  1. Re:TickTock by kylegordon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Personally I'd have considered the 9X and ME teams to be the new technology folks, and the NT teams to be the conservative lot. Give how NT had to be the stable, business orientated one. Look at how long it took for DirectX to be supported on the NT platform. Games on NT? Sure... We all know BillG said NT stands for New Technology, but that was purely a marketing term. Underneath it really is the home user that gets the raw end of the deal when it comes to trying out new technologies.

  2. Re:TickTock by Agripa · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is nothing new at Intel or any comparable semiconductor manufacturer who owns their own fabrication plants. Bob Colwell discussed this in a presentation he gave at Stanford. Intel has separate design teams to handle new designs and refinements to existing designs. The later teams are often linked with process technology or fabrication plants because it is very very expensive to have a new process become available for use in production while having nothing available to take advantage of it.