IBM develops 32nm processor technology
IBM has jointly developed 32nm processor technology with AMD, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., Freescale, Infineon, and Samsung. The latest development will increase the speed of the implementation of a breakthrough material known as “high-k/metal gate” in next generation 32 nanometer (32nm) computer chips. IBM & partners have reduced the chip size by 50 percent as compared to the previous technology. The high-k metal gate chips save about 45 percent total power, and increases system performance by up to 30 percent.
Chips using the new technique will support a range of applications – from low power computer microchips targeted at wireless and other consumer-oriented devices to high performance microprocessors for games and enterprise computing.
This new approach to implementing high-k/metal gate will be available to IBM alliance members and their clients in the second half of 2009.
