Intel is moving beyond the 45nm chip into denser territory. The company gave a first-ever demo of a 32nm Westmere chip — though no performance benchmarks are available at this time — and rumor has it that the packed processors could make their way into laptops as early as this year. We're inclined to believe that rumor as Intel just sank $7 billion dollars into American factories in Arizona, New Mexico and Oregon, and Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini even got a call from President Obama to commend him.
From Computer World:
Otellini said Obama called him last night to congratulate him on company's decision. The president "reminded me that he sees the Intel logo every morning when he opens up his laptop; I was pleased to hear that," he noted.
Intel's move to produce the chips in the US as opposed to overseas will come as a boon to American labor, and its $7 billion is an investment in American infrastructure. The company could have scored incentives by going with foreign plants already geared to produce 32nm chips, which will most likely replace 45nm processors as the most profitable chip configuration to manufacture very soon.
Via Engadget and Computer World
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By Kevin Hall
6:20 PM ON 02/10/09
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By iCurmugeon at 11:50 AM ON 02/11/09
And will those chips require a liquid-nitrogen cooling system mounted on the motherboard? Or maybe they can design a motherboard around a 12-inch fan.
By Nicholasjh at 6:30 PM ON 02/11/09
I'm sure they don't produce too much heat. Do you think Intel is run by fools?
By mike at 8:12 PM ON 02/11/09
WOW this is really cool on the tech side of things but the best statement i read was: "Intel's move to produce the chips in the US as opposed to overseas will come as a boon to American labor, and its $7 billion is an investment in American infrastructure. The company could have scored incentives by going with foreign plants already geared to produce 32nm chips,...."
GOOD JOB INTEL...seriously this is the kind of patriotism we need from companies in the USA esp with the current state things are in. ive always used intel only and will continue to do so
By Dalhimar at 7:35 PM ON 02/23/09
@iCurmugeon : Because the chips have a much smaller architecture they will be able to transfer the heat with greater ease, Not to mention that with the new 32nm chips Intel has been using a new material to replace silicon (as far as i know they stuck with their announcement for Hafnium based processors) Which reduced the leakage of electrons in the system by a significant amount, which lead to in itself not only a smaller structure for the transistors, but naturally lower amount of heat produced.
@Mike : I agree, Intel is one of the first companies to realize that outsourcing has actually hurt our economy in the long run and actually do something to bring production back to the US people.
In general these chips will not only be able to run at a higher clock frequency (3+ghz average estimate), they will move from dual core and quads, to six and possibly 8 on a standard processor size. With this amount of processing power, computers will leap ahead. And the fact of it is that Intel had announced these amazingly small chips about two years ago. Two Years. The only reason they have not been in production is they wanted to refine the tech so they could get a larger profit off the current 45nm tech.
By Smarticus at 12:22 PM ON 03/18/09
I have been using AMD chips for years because I do not want to pay intel's price. That has just changed. Thanks intel for keeping people like me afloat.
By raven3quill at 6:52 PM ON 03/19/09
For the AMD fanboys: At Luther Forest in upstate New York, AMD has already committed to build a new fab that will provide ~1,500 direct and ~5,000 indirect jobs. It's supposed to be up and running around 2012. This will be it's first outside of Germany, I believe.
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