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Re: Intel's new 3D transistors will leave competiton for dead

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On 15/05/2011 1:07 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
> It's true.  No one knows how any particular technology will play out.
> I'm sure that IBM and Global Foundries will eventually build the
> technological equivalent of tri-gate transistors.  The questions are
> when and at what cost.  If someone eventually beats Intel, it will be
> because someone has figured out how to do bleeding edge manufacturing
> at a lower cost than Intel.  Don't hold your breath.

It's actually already right there for the IBM alliance: SOI. More 
specifically FDSOI (fully-depleted SOI). They've been using this 
technology since the 90nm node. Intel has been avoiding SOI since that 
time, and trying to find every technology that give it the equivalent 
featureset as SOI without having to use SOI. They came up with HKMG as 
the big marketing announcement in the last node, and now FinFETs.

FinFETs increase the gate-source capacitance in exchange for higher 
drive current. It's not going to have nearly the same level of advantage 
as HKMG gave them, and HKMG really didn't give them all that much of an 
advantage in power-savings or performance during the last node either, 
despite all of their hype for that technology too. As I said, these 
technology announcements are for the sake of the announcement, nothing else.

	Yousuf Khan

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Intel's new 3D transistors will leave competiton for dead Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2011-05-13 17:03 +0200
  Re: Intel's new 3D transistors will leave competiton for dead Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2011-05-14 02:07 -0400
    Re: Intel's new 3D transistors will leave competiton for dead Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@gmail.com> - 2011-05-15 10:07 -0700
      Re: Intel's new 3D transistors will leave competiton for dead Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2011-05-15 21:57 -0400
        Re: Intel's new 3D transistors will leave competiton for dead Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 10:36 -0700
          Re: Intel's new 3D transistors will leave competiton for dead Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> - 2011-05-24 10:57 -0400
            Re: Intel's new 3D transistors will leave competiton for dead Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@gmail.com> - 2011-05-24 17:39 -0700
    Re: Intel's new 3D transistors will leave competiton for dead Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> - 2011-05-24 10:51 -0400
      Re: Intel's new 3D transistors will leave competiton for dead Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2011-05-27 23:33 -0400

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