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Comments on: IBM's charming smile attracts Hitachi to 32nm research pact

I get it .. 

Posted Tuesday 11th March 2008 03:58 GMT

Paris Hilton

... about the time IBM and Hitachi have figured out the high-k and 32nm production techniques Intel will have 100,000s of 32nm chips out and be prototyping 25nm .. way to catch up !

Paris, because she even gets it

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Posted Tuesday 11th March 2008 08:08 GMT

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"techniques for manufacturing very small chips" ? 

Posted Tuesday 11th March 2008 10:26 GMT

Paris Hilton

I thought 45nm is track size, not chip size. How do you solder 45nm small chips?

One can use smaller track size to boost number of transistors (e.g. cache memory and number of processing units) and shrink power consumption while retaining similar chip size.

@Erik Aamot 

Posted Tuesday 11th March 2008 10:45 GMT

Flame

Um IBM were the first company to 45nm, well before intel.

What makes you think intel will be first to 32nm?

@ Chris 

Posted Tuesday 11th March 2008 12:36 GMT

erm probably propaganga but

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20070918corp_a.htm

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