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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. My business plan includes world domination by captaindomon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These are long-term business forecasts for 10+ years down the line. They are thought experiments only, in my opinion. They are still valuable, and something to consider, but still very much a "projection" and not a "concrete plan with funding".

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  2. The people that created this must not be engineers by olsmeister · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is obviously pie-in-the-sky speak from the marketing dweebs, who don't understand the physical limitations that come with a die shrink.

  3. Re:My Roadmap by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Give it up. The liability from lawsuits by people who sue after getting hit in the head by heavy gold flying pony crap will bankrupt you, just like it did the owners of the goose that laid golden eggs...

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  4. Who can predict that far out? by ishmalius · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would suspect that unforeseen developments, such as big advances in 3d circuit design, would alter this schedule a lot. This is simply daydreaming.

    1. Re:Who can predict that far out? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      3D chip layouts are part of this roadmap. This kind of roadmap isn't really intended to say what their process will be, however. It's intended to give numbers to their core design teams about how many transistors they will be able to play with, what the latencies will be, and so on. These teams will then start working on designs on the assumption that the predictions are correct, then tweak them a bit if they were wrong. If they go badly wrong, you get something like the Pentium 4.

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  5. Re:The people that created this must not be engine by R2.0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "After all there's a reason you're not actually working in enginerring, when you're such a great engineer..."

    Yeah - the pay is better.

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  6. Re:How about 1994, 1997 and 2000/2001? by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Strictly in terms of clock, yes. But if you normalize for performance/clock it doesn't look that off. I imagine a 3.2GHz nehalem would perform somewhere around (or even north of) a 6.7GHz P4.