News Intel announces 3D Tri-Gate transistors

[Lizard]

Intel details a new 3D transistor production technique will allow the production of 22nm transistors.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardwar...-transistors/1

[battles_atlas]

Will I have to wear stupid goggles to use one?

[mi1ez]

Wow. Genuinely impressed!

[Valinor]

Originally Posted by battles_atlas

Will I have to wear stupid goggles to use one?

They only work with a 120Hz motherboard.

[doggeh]

Originally Posted by battles_atlas

Will I have to wear stupid goggles to use one?

Originally Posted by Valinor

They only work with a 120Hz motherboard.

hahahaha

[Jimbob94]

Looks awesome

[Kenny_McCormick]

I'll buy the non-3D version. 3D gives me headache.

[Guinevere]

Only 2% to 3% more to manufacture, what'll equate to at the tills? A 50% premium?

[cgthomas]

Originally Posted by Guinevere

Only 2% to 3% more to manufacture, what'll equate to at the tills? A 50% premium?

That really wouldn't surprise me. The lack of competition at this field is hurting us consumers. Intel is dominating and AMD is lacking behind (AMD fan boys need not shout, it's the bloody truth).

AMD's offer is and has been very poor when compared to Intel's.
And there's no point in saying that AMD offer bang for buck (Phenom II for example) - well if you were after the most bang for buck then you've got no business looking for the latest and fastest CPU's, since they all come with a premium price tag.

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[Centy-face]

I have a complete techrection at this.

[Technobod]

I'm intrigued as to how well they'll overclock compared to 2D transistors...

[jimmyjj]

Impressive.

Intel's research budget is in the billions, I am not sure if AMD will ever catch up.

[Bloody_Pete]

Probably less, as they'll be able to make more per wafer So faster and potentially cheaper. Win

[flibblesan]

Wasn't AMD working on this sort of technology years ago?

[ch424]

All they've done is make the gate thicker and go marketing mental. I'm sure Samsung, TSMC and the others will catch up soon enough.

[l3v1ck]

There go AMD's hopes of a long term come back. I doubt Intel will license this tech to Global Foundaries and the like.
It's a really cool bit of design though. I'll look forward to it coming to market, even if I do have to wait a year or two. The only downside I can see is that Intel may use this to extend the life of the Atom design, rather than actually designing a good power efficient architecture.

[TheLegendJoe]

22nm : | ARRRG

I'm rocking a phenom 2 965BE, pretty sure thats 40nm... And came out 2 ish years ago, proof of moores law? haha.

[ZERO <ibis>]

Wait if the power draw is that much lower and thus the heat does not not mean that on the high end we are looking at a 50% increase in base clock speeds!?

[Lizard]

Originally Posted by ZERO &lt;ibis&gt;

Wait if the power draw is that much lower and thus the heat does not not mean that on the high end we are looking at a 50% increase in base clock speeds!?

From what Intel said I doubt we'll see significantly higher clock speeds on Ivy Bridge - instead the power savings of these really rather clever 22nm transitors will used to improve the architecture - thus resulting in more performance.

After all, more Intel desktop chips have been 'stuck' at 2.66GHz or so for the last 5+ years, so there's been a massive increase in performance during that time.

[Oggyb]

Quite, I'd rather have more performance at the same clock setting, with 50% reduction in power draw than way more perfomance than I'll ever need and an unchallenged electricy bill.