News Intel demonstrates first working 32nm chip

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/09/18/intel_demos_first_working_32nm_chip/1

Otellini showed off the world's first working 32nm microchip and says the company is on track for volume production to start in 2009.

 

Glad to see Tim's putting my Canon 70-300 IS to good use - that's a nice shot Would love to know how many SRAMs per wafer - I want to calculate "billions of transistors per wafer" cos I'm sad like that

 

Wow 32nm Already? Made me wonder when we are going to hit the limit for how small we can make em - will they eventually be built at the molecular level by nanobots?

 

I think I'm right in remembering the practical limit being close to 12nm or something like that. Next we move to optical - check this out: http://www.trustedreviews.com/cpu-memory/news/2007/09/18/Silicon-Photonics-The-Next-Step/p1

 

they must be so hard to design.. practicaly need a degree in quantum physics aswell as electronic engineering :| very high frequancy circuits are hard enough without the traces only nm apart and far thiner than a human hair. How long can we keep up this reduction in size?

 

Pretty sure 45nm was 'impossible' a few years ago, its more chemical advances that allow these shrinking cores

 

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=158320&page=9

go congratulate Fugger on his acheivement

 

One rare instance where something shrinking is good!

 

Probably not very functional when hes had his grubby hands all over it

 

The smallest we could ever make cpus would be 3 atoms big (haha big)

that is if we could even do that