Intel is planning to skip the 45nm production process altogether with its forthcoming Poulson Itanium processors, jumping from 65nm to 32nm, the chipmaker revealed.
Intel Itanium to skip 45nm - vnunet.com
wow....this process thing is going fast.
Intel is planning to skip the 45nm production process altogether with its forthcoming Poulson Itanium processors, jumping from 65nm to 32nm, the chipmaker revealed.
Transistor size has little to do with the overclocking potential of a batch of CPUs. Because the transistors are smaller, they require less power to operate therefore shouldn't produce as much heat as larger process sizes. Few chips are limited by thermal obstructions though and the overclocking potential of a chip has to do with how well the core is designed, as well as speed binning procedures in the factory. Multiple core processors will become worse over time because the chances of all cores yielding the same speeds are made smaller and smaller the more cores you have to work with.yay....more ridiculous overclocking capabilities yet again from Intel.
That said, Itaniums are proprietary pieces of junk that use an outdated 64 bit instruction set that is not capability with native x86 instructions