Intel has taken the wraps off its next chip technology, a 22nm process utilizing a new 3D trigate architecture promising faster speeds and big power savings, which will ramp to volume manufacturing later this year. Performance and power improvements in the Moore's Law-extending technology are "like nothing we've seen before [...] far exceeding] what we typically see from one process generation to the next," observed Intel Senior Fellow Mark Bohr. Chipmakers have been tinkering for years with post-planar CMOS technology and visions of trigate architectures surrounding the channel.
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