Intel’s Paul Otellini has shown the world’s first working chips built on 22nm process technology during the Intel Developer Forum today. Production for 32nm chips that integrate graphics with the CPU have just begun production, but the 22nm process—able to fit 2.9 billion transistors into an area the size of a fingernail–means that more powerful, more efficient processors (as well as the architecture that supports them) are on the way.
Intel also gave an update to the 32nm process with the announcement of the upcoming Sandy Bridge microarchitecture, which features a 6th-gen graphics core onto the CPU die for improved graphics performance. The new Sandy Bridge cores will also include AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions), a set of instructions (256-bit) for floating point, media, and processor intensive software.
Tags: 22nm, Intel, Processors
