Intel announces its 22nm technology with transistors entering the third dimension

[NewsBytes]

In accordance with its tick-tock model of shrinking processes and new microarchitectures, Intel today announced its 22 nanometer microprocessor, code named "Ivy Bridge", based on the same microarchitecture as Sandy Bridge. The interesting thing being that these transistors will be the world’s first three - dimensional transistors called Tri-Gate transistors. This is a first since the birth of two-dimensional planar transistors that we have seen since their inception.
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