Silicon Innovation

Intel continuously researches new transistor designs to bring you powerful processor performance with increased energy efficiency.

About Silicon Innovation

45nm

Transistors on our latest processors are just 45-billionths of a meter wide. You could lay over 2,000 of our transistor gates side-by-side and almost equal the diameter of a strand of human hair. With the use of hafnium oxide replacing silicon dioxide (in use since the 1960s) the new transistors leak less energy, produce less heat and switch faster.

Nearly doubling the density of our processors means leaps in performance, an up-to-50-percent larger L2 cache, and new levels of breakthrough energy efficiency. Cool—in more ways than one.
Gordon Moore calls it "the biggest change in transistor technology in 40 years."

32nm

It's another world's first. Intel is on track for production in 2009 for its 32nm logic process. With transistors so small that more than 4 million of them could fit on the period at the end of this sentence, Moore's Law has again proved a point—one that apparently can fit a lot of transistors.