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Intel's Roadmap Includes 4nm Fab in 2022

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-a-bit-out-there dept.

Precision submits "Intel Corp., the largest maker of chips in the world, has outlined plans to make chips using 4nm process technology in about thirteen years. According to Intel, integration capacity of chips will increase much higher compared to fabrication process."

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  1. Logical next step: by SilverHatHacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next step of the plan: negative-sized chips by 2050!

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    1. Re:Logical next step: by jameskojiro · · Score: 4, Funny

      Either that or the "TARDIS" chip. The logic gates are bigger on the inside than on the outside in order to get around moore's law.....

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    2. Re:Logical next step: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      They can already do this using, my special negative-sized ruler.

      The one you use to measure your penis?

  2. Must we dumb it down? by stormguard2099 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Intel Corp., the largest maker of chips in the world,

    Is it really neccesary to explain who intel is on /.? I think even my parents know that intel makes chips, they put out enough commercials... Are even our taco overlords not really reading TFS before hitting that submit button?

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  3. My Roadmap by hippo_of_knowledge · · Score: 5, Funny

    It just happens that my personal roadmap for 2022 includes a flying pony that craps gold. I'm cautiously optimistic.

  4. Oh Intel. Such optimists... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    By 2022, the only integrated circuits you'll have will be the ones you carve yourself, with your bare teeth, out of the bones of your children(during those rare times that you aren't fighting off hordes of monstrous rat-men or scavenging for survival in a grim Malthusian dystopia).

  5. Re:Must not be using silicon then... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or...

    Google claims that it's about 0.022 beard-seconds.

  6. Re:Must not be using silicon then... by oldspewey · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are correct, they plan to transition from silicon to unobtainium.

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  7. Re:And on a personal note... by SilverEyes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmm... 2013 can't be great for the gene pool. I guess it may be balanced out as 1/2 of the first generation's genes come from such an ambitious person.

    Or maybe

    2014) Run out of lottery money on alimony payments :P

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  8. Re:Must not be using silicon then... by SilverEyes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Except for a vial coated in an oil of slipperiness, if memory serves.

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