32% Performance Gain From Radical New Intel 3D Processor (major breakthrough in its 43-year history)

[Turborama]

Source: Computer Daily News

Thursday | 05/05/2011

Intel has demonstrated its radical new "Ivy Bridge" three-dimensional processor, dubbed Tri-Gate, which it is billing as one of the major breakthroughs of its 43-year history.

The chip, which uses 22-nanometre technology, was demonstrated by senior fellow Mark Bohr at a media conference in San Francisco around 2.30am, Sydney time, running on a server, a desktop and a notebook PC – but Intel believes it will also see the company move in a major way into the handheld processor area now dominated by designs from ARM of the UK.

Said Bohr: "The performance gains and power savings of Intel's unique 3-D Tri-Gate transistors are like nothing we've seen before. This milestone is going further than simply keeping up with Moore's Law (which suggests the number of transistors that fit on a chip roughly doubles every two years).

"The low-voltage and low-power benefits far exceed what we typically see from one process generation to the next. It will give product designers the flexibility to make current devices smarter and wholly new ones possible."


Read more: http://smarthouse.com.au/Home_Office/Desktop_PCs/H6E5C6S9

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Intel's new '3-D' manufactured chip to extend lead over rivals

Source: The Independent (Ireland)

By Ian King | Thursday May 05 2011

Intel, which employs over 4,000 people in Ireland, has unveiled a processor made with a '3-D' manufacturing technique that increases chip performance by as much as 37pc while using less power.

The new Ivy Bridge processor will be in production by the end of this year, the Santa Clara, California-based Intel said yesterday. The chip is the first to rely on 3-D tri-gate transistors, an approach almost 10 years in the making that squeezes 22-nanometer circuits on to a piece of silicon.

"This breakthrough will extend Intel's lead even further over the rest of the semiconductor industry," Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr said.

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Though four-fifths of PCs sold are based on Intel processors, there are no phones that feature its designs. The new chips could draw half the power of current models when processing at the same speed, saving battery life.

Full article: http://www.independent.ie/business/world/intels-new-3d-manufactured-chip-to-extend-lead-over-rivals-2638115.html

(I've just spent a fortune on a top end i7 processor and motherboard for the PC I'm building, hopefully the new motherboard will be able to cope with this "super processor" when it comes out)

[NBachers]

1. Yup, I spent my tax refund on a new i5 system

I waited a few tax cycles to make it happen. I hope I'll be able to shoehorn an Ivy Bridge in, but it'll probably require a whole new set of hardware. Maybe my "good for years" system's going to have a shorter life than I expected.

Otherwise, though, I'm pleased as hell with it.

[joshcryer]

2. Damnit AMD, catch up already.

AMD will be so far behind it's not even funny.

Guess I'll wait for memristors to make a splash. :(

[DreamSmoker]

3. No upgrades possible

If this is like all the other break throughs in the last few years?? This means all new Hardware..
It will be great though...
It will just make everything else alot more affordable....

[Javaman]

4. I read something about this on the net about 10 years ago...

that the military was using and advanced "3-D" processor for their fighter planes.

:shrug:

[sofa king]

5. A 32% gain would bring them up to "sucks."

Seriously. Most of you who can't stream high definition, most of you who play PC games at 5-8 frames per second when you should be at 30, any of you with a Dell that just doesn't cut the mustard, those are all likely examples of the terrible integrated Intel graphics that have set the PC industry back a decade and a half because of their low cost. They're cheap because they suck.

Now, people tend to get their backs up when you rag on their hardware choices, so don't listen to me. Read what the experts say. In 2008:

According to Microsoft's performance numbers, one of Intel's new Core i7-965 processors can run Crysis at an average of 7.4 FPS at 800x600 with the detail level turned down. In the same test, Microsoft says Intel's DX10-capable integrated graphics hardware managed just 5.2 FPS. A (NVidia) GeForce 8400 GS (which is available for $30 these days) outdid both solutions, though, scoring 33.9 FPS.

The human eye requires at least 24 FPS to simulate semi-smooth movement, and most computer gamers will tell you that twice that is where you really want to be.

Here's someone who laughingly disagreed with me last month:

“The best thing that happened in the PC market this year, and this is after me beating up them up for 11 years, I’m going to give them a little bit of praise, was the new Intel HD graphics… it’s something they should have done years ago… but you know. At least they don’t suck any more. The brand new just in the market place, six weeks in the market place integrated graphics don’t suck. As long as you buy that model. I’m sure they’re still selling the sucky ones.

“That’s actually pretty exciting thing for us. iPhone has a more powerful graphics chip than what the intel graphics were last year. As those PC’s feed themselves into the marketplace and replace the ones out now, yeah, I think you’ll see an explosion of graphics on the PC.

(Edit: that was a dude from Epic games: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/04/epic-latest-intel-integrated-graphics-dont-suck/ I should add that I chose the same word, "suck," to describe the Intel GMA by pure coincidence.)

Those of you wondering why your netbook can't stream Netflix videos even though you have a fat Internet pipe can squarely place the blame on Intel and Microsoft. Nexflix uses a stupid program called Silverlight, which bases its resolution on the bandwidth you are receiving. Unfortunately, the Intel graphics cannot handle a data stream greater than about 480p (if you're lucky), and there's no way to adjust the resolution yourself. So you're pretty much SOL, though you can try a semi-shady looking program called GMA Booster, which at least kicks up the frequency of your shitty integrated graphics.

A 32% gain in performance means nothing if the performance gain is from "unusable" to "unworkable." I wish everyone would vote with their pocketbooks and stay away from this garbage in order to force the hardware and software makers to find a real solution. And no, I don't think AMD is going to reach the market with a better alternative any time soon, because they also specialize in bullshitting the public with promises the don't keep and are always months or years late to market.

[w4rma]

6. This processor isn't a video processor. It is a CPU. The 3D refers to the way that the circuits

flow within the CPU. This processor has 3D/3-way gates, rather than planar/2D/2-way gates.

[sofa king]

8. Oh, I got it now!

It's sort of like how RAM sits at a right angle to the motherboard, allowing more transistors to fit into a smaller space, only on a microscopic scale.

That is a big deal, and now I understand why they're claiming that Moore's Law (which if you ask me has been dead for ten years because of the clock frequency wall) may be revived.

Thank you for the correction.

[originalpckelly]

7. Duh, George, we can make a 3D chip?

You mean we don't live in flatland?

:rofl: