Intel announced today that it has completed the development of its 0.13micron (130 nanometer) logic technology, allowing it to manufacture chips with transistors that are approximately 1/1000th the width of a human hair.
Intel intends to begin volume manufacturing the technology next year, which it says may contain more than 100 million transistors and run at multi-GHz clock speeds.
The company has built functional static RAMs and microprocessors using this technology, which features 70nm transistor gate width, 1.5nm gate oxide thickness, copper interconnects, and low-k dielectrics. Intel is the first to complete development of the 130nm generation process technology and to demonstrate its manufacturing readiness with complex integrated circuits.
It will present details of this process technology at the International Electron Devices Meeting in December.
"This accomplishment reaffirms our faith in Moore`s Law," says Calum Chisholm, Intel South Africa channel business manager. Today`s announcement extends Intel`s 10-year track record of introducing a new process technology every two years.
"Intel`s 130nm process incorporates an unusually large number of simultaneous technology advancements," adds Chisholm. "We started working on these advancements several years ago. We believe that our 130nm process will be the earliest to ramp into volume production and to deliver products with leading-edge performance, density and power efficiency."
A nanometer is one billionth of a meter.
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