During the week of June 16th, 2008 at the VLSI Technology Symposium, there were a lot of compelling papers presented. One in particular caught my attention because the findings had a very subtle underlying message. I’m referring to the Intel paper on floating body cell (FBC). The floating body cell is not new. Intel talked about a non-planar floating body cell in 2006. This year Intel touted a much smaller device using a planar design on SOI. The device could have 3-4x more bits per area. The benefit is faster computational rates.
It is well known that Intel does not currently use SOI for volume production. When considering the use of SOI for microprocessors, Intel has long claimed that its benefits diminished with each technology node shrink. The floating body cell announcement endorses the use of SOI but of course leaves a few openings for Intel to continue to walk a fine line around SOI. The buried oxide (BOX) thickness in Intel’s device is only 10nm compared to >100nm for many SOI uses. Intel feels that this technology is suitable for the 15nm node and beyond. IBM and ISS both have an SOI memory technology which they’ve shown as beneficial at 45nm and 32nm process technology.
One of Intel’s key statements is that FBC could “potentially be less costly” than embedded DRAM. Very few companies can reach the economies of scale in manufacturing that Intel and commodity memory vendors reach. Intel will continue to study the cost impact. The real message here is that all leading edge logic companies endorse SOI’s technology benefits.
-Joanne Itow
Monday, January 19, 2009
My Biggest Disappointment at CES, Yet Again, Came in 500ml Packages
And now ladies and gentlemen, something completely different from the self-congratulatory, back-slapping, post-CES euphoria flooding the airwaves. Oh yes, there was amazing technology, amazing innovation and a sense of hubris in light of the economy and hard times all around. Less bling, more practical solutions. I think I even got a door held open for me a time or two by someone I didn't have to tip, hehe.
The Intel booth was packed with enthusiastic techies and I met with over fifty of the best and brightest tech press in the world. Their knowledge and class always blows me away. We chatted Core i7, 45nm innovation, Atom, and Classmate PC. And as everybody at CES talked, we drank bottled water. Lots of it.
Bottled water which, when emptied, couldn't find a recycling bin for a hundred miles. Literally. Turns out the Las Vegas Convention Center "isn't set up for recycling", so off go hundreds of thousands of empty bottles to a landfill somewhere.
Or worse -- as a recent issue of the Economist writes about in depth - the ocean. Guess how much plastic is floating in the Pacific Ocean in huge masses? A few football fields worth? Try two swirling blobs totaling TWICE the size of the United States. Serious! I am always astonished at the monumental waste at CES. Not just empty water bottles but mountains of brochures, glitzy giveaways, disposable carpets and enough electricity use to power many small countries.
And yet almost all the exhibitors are companies "embracing sustainability," "going green." Exhibitors want to be seen as embracing the environment, so why not lean on the local convention authorities to embrace it too? A two-watt power saving in your glitzy gadget or fifteen more minutes of battery life is great, but I'd love to see technological innovation reach other areas in desperate need of greening.
Not all is doom and gloom of course. A highlight for me was meeting Anisha Ladha, Intel's e-waste Program Manager. Kudos to Intel for giving her primo CES booth space to talk about how we reclaim more than 3 billion gallons of wastewater each year in our factories.
Anisha is passionate, with an environmental engineering background and tons of experience at all levels. And months in advance of last year's show, she spent ergs trying to figure out who in show management could help make CES more environmentally friendly. She hit dead ends everywhere, with the fundamental issue being that "LVCC doesn't recycle." When she investigated offering reusable Intel branded beverage mugs she met with an even bigger quagmire of costs, rules, status quo and LVCC labor laws.
Imagine a "gentle nudge" program where attendees reused a water bottle and had it scanned at each meeting to collect a goodie at the end of the show? Maybe a collection of iTunes MP3s with "green" in the title (that's only slightly tongue-in-cheek), or a raffle for a more power efficient, sleek and light Centrino 2 notebook?
Let's not continue letting this convention be a study in "you can lead a CES gadgeteer to bottled water, but you can't make him (or her) recycle." Anisha, myself and several others I talked to last week are going to do our part to help make sure our respective companies walk the walk as well as talk the talk on green. Companies may make broad declarations on sustainability, but it is the employees themselves that must act to make words reality. Let's hope we have enough voices chime in to really unleash the "green"!
The Intel booth was packed with enthusiastic techies and I met with over fifty of the best and brightest tech press in the world. Their knowledge and class always blows me away. We chatted Core i7, 45nm innovation, Atom, and Classmate PC. And as everybody at CES talked, we drank bottled water. Lots of it.
Bottled water which, when emptied, couldn't find a recycling bin for a hundred miles. Literally. Turns out the Las Vegas Convention Center "isn't set up for recycling", so off go hundreds of thousands of empty bottles to a landfill somewhere.
Or worse -- as a recent issue of the Economist writes about in depth - the ocean. Guess how much plastic is floating in the Pacific Ocean in huge masses? A few football fields worth? Try two swirling blobs totaling TWICE the size of the United States. Serious! I am always astonished at the monumental waste at CES. Not just empty water bottles but mountains of brochures, glitzy giveaways, disposable carpets and enough electricity use to power many small countries.
And yet almost all the exhibitors are companies "embracing sustainability," "going green." Exhibitors want to be seen as embracing the environment, so why not lean on the local convention authorities to embrace it too? A two-watt power saving in your glitzy gadget or fifteen more minutes of battery life is great, but I'd love to see technological innovation reach other areas in desperate need of greening.
Not all is doom and gloom of course. A highlight for me was meeting Anisha Ladha, Intel's e-waste Program Manager. Kudos to Intel for giving her primo CES booth space to talk about how we reclaim more than 3 billion gallons of wastewater each year in our factories.
Anisha is passionate, with an environmental engineering background and tons of experience at all levels. And months in advance of last year's show, she spent ergs trying to figure out who in show management could help make CES more environmentally friendly. She hit dead ends everywhere, with the fundamental issue being that "LVCC doesn't recycle." When she investigated offering reusable Intel branded beverage mugs she met with an even bigger quagmire of costs, rules, status quo and LVCC labor laws.
Imagine a "gentle nudge" program where attendees reused a water bottle and had it scanned at each meeting to collect a goodie at the end of the show? Maybe a collection of iTunes MP3s with "green" in the title (that's only slightly tongue-in-cheek), or a raffle for a more power efficient, sleek and light Centrino 2 notebook?
Let's not continue letting this convention be a study in "you can lead a CES gadgeteer to bottled water, but you can't make him (or her) recycle." Anisha, myself and several others I talked to last week are going to do our part to help make sure our respective companies walk the walk as well as talk the talk on green. Companies may make broad declarations on sustainability, but it is the employees themselves that must act to make words reality. Let's hope we have enough voices chime in to really unleash the "green"!
UPDATED: 45 days and counting… to the magic of 45nm Hafnium
45 is an important number. In 45 BC Julius Caesar won a victory over the armies of Pompey and proclaimed himself the sole ruler of Rome. Some 2000 years later, in 1945 the allies won a victory over the Axis powers. Both victories signaled huge changes in the world and moved it forwards in a new direction.
Now in 45 days time, something will happen that is not as extraordinary as the deeds of Caesar and Churchill, but it certainly does have the power to change and move the world forward.
In 45 days, a new building called “Fab 32” tucked into a sleepy corner of Arizona will come to life. Inside this building a new type of device will be made in incredible numbers. These devices will be able to shop for groceries, analyze proteins, play computer games, model financial markets, allow you to chat to your aunt in Australia, design automobiles and search for aliens. And these devices will do so faster than ever before, cooler than ever before and better than ever before.
Now in 45 days time, something will happen that is not as extraordinary as the deeds of Caesar and Churchill, but it certainly does have the power to change and move the world forward.
In 45 days, a new building called “Fab 32” tucked into a sleepy corner of Arizona will come to life. Inside this building a new type of device will be made in incredible numbers. These devices will be able to shop for groceries, analyze proteins, play computer games, model financial markets, allow you to chat to your aunt in Australia, design automobiles and search for aliens. And these devices will do so faster than ever before, cooler than ever before and better than ever before.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Look like Intel will launch Nehalem-Based CPUs this year
In Intel Nehalem architecture is the best bet for the future right now, and it really seems that "Chipzilla" done everything in its power to come up with Kingston becomes the basis of this architecture as soon as possible, with no less of these three components are scheduled to arrive in the fourth quarter of 2008.
As Monica Chen reports DigiTimes cites as an Unnamed within the framework of a source of many Taiwan-based motherboard manufacturers, it seems that the chip manufacturer will likely come up with three new Bloomfields by the end of the year, each them to target new Intel LGA1366 nest. Kingston becomes the three, although not yet officially named, are supposedly code name-XE, P1 and MS and are placed at the heart speeds of 3.2GHz, 2.93GHz and 2.66GHz, respectively.According to the same source, each of Kingston enters will have TDP of 130 W, 8MB of L3 cache and will support simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) technology. So as one processor is not really worth that much without a platform to support it, it would seem that Intel is preparing the X58 and ICH10 chipset combination for 4 - you start quarter, just in time to support those in above Kingston enter the Nehalem.The new X58 chipset will be quite a part of the work on its own because it will be used on Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) architecture, eventually replacing the FSB. Furthermore, Intel is likely to "go to bed with the enemy" because their platform is likely to feature four PCI Express 8x slots and support of AMD Quad CrossFireX technology (no word of any Nvidia SLI support for the moment, though) .All in all, it would seem that Intel happens to their plans for domination of the market while AMD processor and has some interesting messages lately, it remains to be seen whether she will be able to hold its own against its much - great opponent and his Nehalems.
As Monica Chen reports DigiTimes cites as an Unnamed within the framework of a source of many Taiwan-based motherboard manufacturers, it seems that the chip manufacturer will likely come up with three new Bloomfields by the end of the year, each them to target new Intel LGA1366 nest. Kingston becomes the three, although not yet officially named, are supposedly code name-XE, P1 and MS and are placed at the heart speeds of 3.2GHz, 2.93GHz and 2.66GHz, respectively.According to the same source, each of Kingston enters will have TDP of 130 W, 8MB of L3 cache and will support simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) technology. So as one processor is not really worth that much without a platform to support it, it would seem that Intel is preparing the X58 and ICH10 chipset combination for 4 - you start quarter, just in time to support those in above Kingston enter the Nehalem.The new X58 chipset will be quite a part of the work on its own because it will be used on Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) architecture, eventually replacing the FSB. Furthermore, Intel is likely to "go to bed with the enemy" because their platform is likely to feature four PCI Express 8x slots and support of AMD Quad CrossFireX technology (no word of any Nvidia SLI support for the moment, though) .All in all, it would seem that Intel happens to their plans for domination of the market while AMD processor and has some interesting messages lately, it remains to be seen whether she will be able to hold its own against its much - great opponent and his Nehalems.
Download Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility 9.0.0.1007
The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility installs Windows* INF files to the target system.The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility will install Windows INF files to the target OS. These files outline to the operating system how to configure the Intel chipset components in order to ensure that the following features function properly:· Core PCI and ISAPNP Services· AGP Support· IDE/ATA33/ATA66/ATA100 Storage Support· SATA Storage Support· USB Support· Identification of Intel(R) Chipset Components in the Device ManagerIntel Chipset Software Installation Utility can be installed in three modes: Interactive, Silent and Unattended Preload. Interactive Mode requires user input during installation; Silent Mode and Unattended Preload do not.This software also offers a set of command line flags, which provide additional installation choices. The command line flags are not case sensitive.
Developer: Intel
License: Freeware Size / OS: 2.4 MB, Windows All
Last Updated: May 13th, 2008, 17:37 GMT
Download Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility 9.0.0.1007
Developer: Intel
License: Freeware Size / OS: 2.4 MB, Windows All
Last Updated: May 13th, 2008, 17:37 GMT
Download Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility 9.0.0.1007
Intel SSDs
Intel, the world's leading manufacturer of processors, intends to enter the market of storage with the publication of his readers Flash SSD. But it seems that the strategy Intel is slightly different than planned, according to Digi Times. First, they have the intention of their products by the end of this year in the third quarter. Secondly, the DBVARIANZ will in the next Centrino platform 2, also known under the name Monte Vina.
The SSD hard drives should be the industry standard to the next, as the technology develops and prices fall. SSD Drives gaining popularity among users of computers, mainly because they are the best features of the current SATA. Most of today are with SATA moving parts, which are reflected in the performance reduced as the latency period of movement and rotation of the head. They also have a bad habit, your data is lost because the shock of the breach and the failure of the various parties.Intel new SSD Drives are designed for notebook users a reliable alternative to the current SATA. The new product range is on the market in two versions, under the names of customers M-X25 and X18 client or M. The first version has a size of 2.5 inches, while the later of 1.8 inches. The two DBVARIANZ will provide users with a storage capacity of 80 GB, for a laptop that is more acceptable.The storage capacity is planned to increase that Intel plans to the capacity up to 160 GB to the end of the fourth quarter. In 2009, users are able to acquire, Intel DBVARIANZ with capacities of 250 and more. Intel disks should be based on its platform Monte Vina, which means that we do not see a large part of the Intel DBVARIANZ until the release of the second Centrino platform.
The SSD hard drives should be the industry standard to the next, as the technology develops and prices fall. SSD Drives gaining popularity among users of computers, mainly because they are the best features of the current SATA. Most of today are with SATA moving parts, which are reflected in the performance reduced as the latency period of movement and rotation of the head. They also have a bad habit, your data is lost because the shock of the breach and the failure of the various parties.Intel new SSD Drives are designed for notebook users a reliable alternative to the current SATA. The new product range is on the market in two versions, under the names of customers M-X25 and X18 client or M. The first version has a size of 2.5 inches, while the later of 1.8 inches. The two DBVARIANZ will provide users with a storage capacity of 80 GB, for a laptop that is more acceptable.The storage capacity is planned to increase that Intel plans to the capacity up to 160 GB to the end of the fourth quarter. In 2009, users are able to acquire, Intel DBVARIANZ with capacities of 250 and more. Intel disks should be based on its platform Monte Vina, which means that we do not see a large part of the Intel DBVARIANZ until the release of the second Centrino platform.
Nvidia Cards Don't Need Quad-Core Chips for Extreme PCs
A video posted by Nvidia on its website showing experiment, held on Nvidia laboratories in which new GTX 280 chip, running mode overclocking and cooled by liquid nitrogen many do not require a major quad-processor to achieve exceptional PC performance.
"Many people think you need an Intel quad-core, or Intel quad-core Extreme to build an exclusive PC," says the publication of "Steffee" of Nvidia website. "Today I happened to build PC games with Intel core 2 duo. This is the duo. Aware that? Duo, two rings."The system used for testing features only two main processor, exactly as stated in his post blogger. This is what it says blog: "Think you need a quad-core processor for extreme PC games with impressive numbers and 3DMark Vantage gaming performance? ... I overclocked and hyper-cooled an SLI platform for games, as using two of our latest and greatest GPUs - GeForce 280 ... GTX and under-$ 200 CPU. "This processor is Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor. The test took place on NForce 790i Ultra SLI motherboard with the new GTX 280 graphics card.Using only one 280 GTX board, 3DMark Vantage result is "X4796." Taking "fun trip" by Nvidia laboratories, a blogger a new GTX 280 SLI board and liquid nitrogen cooling system, which allows it to receive the new test results of 3DMark Score "X10, 282.."To perform the test, for blogger, "Steffee", overclocked Nvida GTX 280 of the main clock of 727MHz, while shader was set to 1458MHz. The normal value for the core clock is set at 602MHz and shader clock of 1296MHz.As we all know, Intel opinion on this is a radically different. "Most of what people today, with their computers require powerful processors. Examples of processor-intensive applications include: creation of content, viewing / editing high definition video using social media sites, office tools, downloading music And editing of photos, "Intel said in a statement.And of course, that Intel may have the answer to that. Processor, E8400, is a very fast because it is at-3.0 GHz and features 6MB cache. The best part is that when overclocked and cooling with liquid nitrogen, this processor is able to get some results too early. But quad-core Extreme Kingston enter are simple and better solution.Full specifications of the system for testing machine includes nForce 790i Ultra SLI motherboard, two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 graphics cards running in SLI mode, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor, 4 GB-SLI ready Corsair DDR3 memory and PC power and cooling TurboCool 1200W power. Operating system used for testing is Windows Vista 32 - bit.
"Many people think you need an Intel quad-core, or Intel quad-core Extreme to build an exclusive PC," says the publication of "Steffee" of Nvidia website. "Today I happened to build PC games with Intel core 2 duo. This is the duo. Aware that? Duo, two rings."The system used for testing features only two main processor, exactly as stated in his post blogger. This is what it says blog: "Think you need a quad-core processor for extreme PC games with impressive numbers and 3DMark Vantage gaming performance? ... I overclocked and hyper-cooled an SLI platform for games, as using two of our latest and greatest GPUs - GeForce 280 ... GTX and under-$ 200 CPU. "This processor is Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor. The test took place on NForce 790i Ultra SLI motherboard with the new GTX 280 graphics card.Using only one 280 GTX board, 3DMark Vantage result is "X4796." Taking "fun trip" by Nvidia laboratories, a blogger a new GTX 280 SLI board and liquid nitrogen cooling system, which allows it to receive the new test results of 3DMark Score "X10, 282.."To perform the test, for blogger, "Steffee", overclocked Nvida GTX 280 of the main clock of 727MHz, while shader was set to 1458MHz. The normal value for the core clock is set at 602MHz and shader clock of 1296MHz.As we all know, Intel opinion on this is a radically different. "Most of what people today, with their computers require powerful processors. Examples of processor-intensive applications include: creation of content, viewing / editing high definition video using social media sites, office tools, downloading music And editing of photos, "Intel said in a statement.And of course, that Intel may have the answer to that. Processor, E8400, is a very fast because it is at-3.0 GHz and features 6MB cache. The best part is that when overclocked and cooling with liquid nitrogen, this processor is able to get some results too early. But quad-core Extreme Kingston enter are simple and better solution.Full specifications of the system for testing machine includes nForce 790i Ultra SLI motherboard, two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 graphics cards running in SLI mode, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor, 4 GB-SLI ready Corsair DDR3 memory and PC power and cooling TurboCool 1200W power. Operating system used for testing is Windows Vista 32 - bit.
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