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Intel’s Power Play
By Bhanu Kapoor - 08 Mar, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Bhanu Kapoor With the Ivy Bridge processor, Intel claims half the power at the same performance level or double the performance with the same power consumption as the Sandy Bridge processor. The implications of 2X performance-per-watt improvement will be significant for server, desktop, laptop, tablet, and smart phone applications. You can be operating at the same frequency while either... » read more

Converge And Consolidate
By Ed Sperling - 09 Feb, 2012 - Comments: 0

Electronics has always been about convergence, and convergence inevitably spawns new companies while forcing consolidation of others. What used to be in a device moved to a board, from a board there has been a perpetual push to put things in a chip. At one point, circa 2000, analog companies claimed that mixed signal chips were a thing of the past and that there would be separate analog chip... » read more

Cymer’s EUV Power Source Roadmap Slips
By Mark LaPedus - 03 Feb, 2012 - Comments: 0

Amid record sales for the fourth quarter, Cymer Inc. disclosed that it has delayed the shipment of its 20 Watt extreme ultraviolet (EUV) power source upgrade unit by nearly a quarter. The company also remains under pressure to deliver a separate 100 Watt power source for EUV by mid-year. The main EUV tool vendor — ASML Holding NV — expects to ship its NXE:3300B, a full-blown, 13.5nm EU... » read more

How Long Will 28nm Last?
By Ed Sperling - 12 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler As soon as a next generation semiconductor manufacturing process node is out, bets are taken on just how long the current advanced process node will last. The 28/20nm transition is no exception. There is certainly a benefit to moving from 40nm to 28nm. The  availability of high-k/metal gate technology offers quite a few advantages in terms of power reduction... » read more

Thinking Differently About Power
By Ed Sperling - 12 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Battery life and lower electricity bills are now marketing tools for makers of SoCs, the mobile devices they go into, and servers that power data centers. A smart phone battery that lasts through the day without a charge, even when the user is playing high-action games, is a lot more attractive than one lasting only a few hours. And a data center electricity bill that shows a sh... » read more

Speed Demons
By Barry Pangrle - 01 Dec, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Barry Pangrle For extreme world record performance levels, the required power levels are also typically extreme. It’s that age-old battle against diminishing returns to squeeze out every last drop of performance versus practical limits and wallets. For example, a top fuel dragster can consume about six gallons of fuel for a quarter-mile run down the strip. As has previously been shown ... » read more

SOI Conference Shows SOI Driving Key Roadmaps
By Various Writers - 21 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Adele Hars The 2011 IEEE SOI Conference, held in Tempe, AZ last week was not one to miss…but I did. Happily, I got the papers right away, along with observations shared by some of the folks who did get there. Highlights include excellent and insightful papers from ST, ARM, IBM, Intel, Leti, Peregrine and GlobalFoundries, plus many more that indicate SOI-based technologies are at th... » read more

Intel’s Claremont Near-Threshold Voltage IA Core
By Barry Pangrle - 06 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Barry Pangrle Intel announced many new technologies at its recent Intel Developer Forum (IDF) held from Sept. 13-15 in San Francisco, but the one announcement that jumped out at me was the unveiling of its work on a near-threshold voltage (NTV) processor named “Claremont.” For this exercise, Intel chose an older Pentium design to help minimize the number of variables the engineers would... » read more

A Different Kind Of Design
By Ed Sperling - 16 Sep, 2011 - Comments: 0

Intel’s announcements at the Intel Developer Forum this week that it will be creating physically smaller packages that can run on far less energy raises some interesting questions about the future of all design. We’ve become accustomed to one-chip implementations, whether that’s a monolithic processor or an SoC with lots of processors. In the future, though, there may be multiple chips, a... » read more

Low Power Drives New Architectures
By Ed Sperling - 08 Sep, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee Power became the driving discussion at several major events last month. The global cries for energy reduction, which have been mainstream since the early 1970s on the political level, have now moved to being real economic realities for component and systems suppliers. Chipmakers are finding that lower power makes good economic sense—lower cost of packaging, lower cost... » read more

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