Intel to continue pushing Moore's Law with 32nm technology

EL NIDO, Palawan -- Microprocessor platform company Intel will continue to push Moore's law in the next 10 to 15 years, as it expects to come out with a 32-nanometer chip in 2009, an Intel executive said.
"We're on track to producing 32 nanometer chips in 2009," said Adesh Gupta, regional Xeon marketing manager of Intel Technology Asia Pte Ltd. in an interview.
Intel has announced at least 16 servers and high-end PC processors now using the 45-nanometer chip technology, also known as the Penryn.
A human hair is about 90,000 nanometers. More than 2,000 45-nanometer chips can fit across the width of a human hair.
The Intel executive said that the chip manufacturer has consistently been disproving the critics of Moore's Law, as it announced another breakthrough in chip design with 45 nanometer technology, which features the use of the Hafnium-based high-k metal gate technology for the chip's transistors.
Gupta is confident that the company will be able to place more than a billion transistors in a single die in two to three years.
"We have a two-year cadence as we come up with new process technology every two years," the Intel executive said. "This is so because the Moore's law is our fundamental principle in designing products."
Moore's Law was first conceived by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1968. Moore's law states that the number of transistors on a processor would double every 18 months. Gupta said extending Moore's Law is a challenge even for Intel, but Intel scientists are still looking for more materials and technology to make this law relevant.
He said that the chip manufacturer started looking into newer materials to extend Moore's Law back in 2002 and 2003.
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