Intel officially announces its manufacturing process at 10nm

After three generations of 14nm processors, Intel has made its new 10nm process official which will allow new generations of microprocessors to be more powerful and much more energy efficient.

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Intel is proud to announce to the world its new 10nm manufacturing process that brings together twice as many transistors as equivalent competitor processes, thereby once again demonstrating that the semiconductor giant is at the forefront of technology. Intel claims that theirs is a true 10nm process that is a generation ahead of that employed by its main rivals. The latter is due to the fact that there is no standard to measure the size of manufacturing processes, so not all 10 nm are the same, much less.

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Many of the processor manufacturers use nm as a marketing tool instead of an actual measure of the size of transistors in their manufacturing processes, the latter has led us to a situation where TSMC calls a 12nm process at a Upgraded version of its previous 16nm process, there is actually no change in size.

The minimum gate pitch of the Intel 10nm process is reduced from 70nm to 54nm and the minimum metal pitch is contracted from 52nm to 36nm. These smaller dimensions allow for a density of 100.8 mega transistors per mm2, which is 2.7 times higher than Intel's previous 14nm technology and is expected to be approximately 2 times higher than other 10nm processes.

Intel's new 10nm process will deliver 25% higher performance than current 14nm processors while reducing power consumption by 45%. Currently Intel's 14nm ++ process already offers 26% higher energy efficiency than its first 14nm version. In the future we will have the 10nm + which will offer a performance improvement of 15% while reducing energy consumption by 30% compared to 10nm.

Source: overclock3d