Making First 32nm Microprocessor

[Intel1502]

@MrGreekdog This huge wafer is a collection of hundreds of CPU dies.

[qzchris]

This is probably a stupid question, but if he did drop it, would it shatter? How sturdy are these wafers (assuming that's what he's holding)?

[bobythemaster]

@qzchris it's made out of silicon, it's extremely strong.

[J4R16B94]

I don't want integrated graphics, i never use integrated graphics. if i did want integrated graphics i wouldn't want it stuck on my cpu, i'd want it on my motherboard. If a competitor does something right, made you can make some adaptations of your own

[Redthorn57]

don't drop it !

[jadayMisha]

трындец блин, зеркало

[goodspeed5]

AMAZING work :D , i've to write an essay on evolution of Intel microprocessor from 1971 to the present and i only have data till 2007 so please if anyone has any recommendations or info let me know...*asap ^_^* thanks

[mikeccuk2006]

he's holding a blank one ..

[thepsit]

shiny!

[souro19]

GO INDIAN , GO ....

YOU ARE MOST BRILLIANT INVENTOR IN WORLD !

[cjmitz]

If more transistors on a chip etc. is more power, then why cant they just make the physical processors bigger... there's tonnes of room in most ATX cases

[nicaw]

@cjmitz There's a limit on power consumption. Nobody wants more than 150W CPUs.

[venkatguitar]

@nicaw y 150watts? is it some threshold for cpu load? wat happens if its above 150 

[COLDB33R]

@cjmitz

At first blush that would seem to make sense, but you're ignoring two critical factors. First, the smaller elements not only fit into a smaller area, each produces less heat. The i7 with six cores has a TDP of 130 W - the same as a four-core i7 using 45 nm process. The second is the speed of light. Since every gate on the die has to be in sync, at the high clock speed these things run at the time the signal takes to go from one edge of the chip to another becomes a limiting factor.

[SFseis]

They're getting closer and closer to the max. in precessing size. Gonna be interesting what's coming up next...

[pufixas]

who cares the size of processor?

[RSProjectX]

@pufixas The smaller it is, the more transistors you can put in, the more power you get.

[pufixas]

@RSProjectX

"The smaller it is, the more transistor you can put in"

more? I think if it would be bigger the more transistor you can put in...

ah... what ever... thank you.

[RSProjectX]

@pufixas If the transistors are smaller, you can put more of them into the same amount of space.

[VerifyVolatile]

Technology is beautiful.

[3mustardMoNkEyS]

The gate-pitch idea he was talking about was taken into a major consideration for Microprocessors when the first Cray Supercomputer came out, as it's 'C' shaped design brought the chips/transistors closer together to give it more processing capability.

[quangluu96]

1nm =)

[7A1R28]

i really wish amd would catch up to intel-they might force me to build an intel system

[bobbysam232]

don't drop it :D

[spanishmikealverez]

Meh, I'll wait for the 22nm architecture.

[Unexplanation]

@spanishmikealverez  orly? fucking noob

[art1card]

This guy Sanjay will take it to India and steal it from Intel, India will be the fiercest competition for US in the future, Thanks Intel for giving it to India for FREE !!!

[styleraju]

dont worry, intel labs offices in INDIA have designed the latest Xenon chips that run most of the enterprise applications all over the world.

[helmet98]

Ummmm.......Are u crazy?

[sanju1987]

@art1card

fuk that , intel only progressed due to the hard work on indian engineers otherwise it was only known for its

pham................... pham pham pham pham

:)

[tipacoque]

i like

[SeikoPsycho]

That's all I got.

[AzuMao]

Wow these CPUs just keep getting bigger and bigger. But does it blend?

[Frap357]

If you are so ahead of the competition, then how come Sun Microsystems had CPUs years ago, with more cores than your latest CPU have today?

How come the SPARC-based Fujitsu Venus SPARC64 VIIIfx performs better than any of your CPUs?

How come you don't have any asynchronous CPUs?

[TheWMhater]

I think they meant AMD and VIA, not RISC CPU manufacturers.

[Frap357]

Should not matter if the ISA is RISC or CISC, they still have a crappier microarchitecture.

Also, today's RISC architectures have gained more instructions and become more CISC-like.

And today's CISC architectures use microops and internally are quite RISC-like.

[RuninRuni]

i wonder what the'll find out, when there is'nt space for all those atoms between the process!

[bcrscahh198987]

Yeah, all the competitors are running for their money.

[Lurkmoarmygoodsir]

nigor stole my mirror

[plutoend99]

lold

[majormixer]

Extremely cool !

[GroinAbductor]

shinyyyy

[Ravenpulse]

his head looks huge in that suit

[kimsoonshin]

all I see is a washroom mirror.... where are the statistics!

[mashhead1000]

My cock has a microchip in it

[DigitalGoliath]

We'll mine runs at 69 Terahertz, WITH turbo mod. 1 YottaFlop/s

...

HAWTT DAMN

[MKSmallsM86]

I want my motherboard to run a wafer that should put me on top of processing power for 2 weeks

[Smeddog1]

ok, is it me or is that a huge ass cpu???

[breadwithkorv]

lol thats not just one cpu thats a silcon waffer with more than 100 cpu chips on it

[tarantula1264]

Thats a waffer.

[Ravenpulse]

cpu? its a mirror

[Intel1502]

@rysliv No shit.

[bassplayer142]

@Ravenpulse It is a silicon wafer with the cpu dies onboard.

[Ravenpulse]

It's u

[abduction03]

it is weird that i feel aroused by the idea of 32 nm micros? o_o

[ddrmegamixer]

Something that annoys the hell out of me is they make processors and bundle them with a small crappy ass coolers that are about as much use as the toilet paper I wipe my ass with sort it out. I personally cant see why they have to keep changing the socket sets so much other than to make a shit load of money while offering a small bit of extra performance and ripping people off to pay for the next R&D for a little extra performance make big advances then maybe I would think differently.

[Bhinder14]

Your comment is retarded. And it shows how much you know about computers, or processors!

[ddrmegamixer]

So I'm wrong am I the coolers are great and they are not looking to make as much market driven hype money as they can.

Software hasn't even started to use the power of my last gen quad core yet let alone the I7 and I9's and such that are on the way it will be 5-10 years before they are used to there fullest unless your just going to run folding@home.

[Bhinder14]

Wow how truly, fucking stupid. For one, yes quite a bit of software utilise the multi-core processor efficiently. And while nothing has been able to max it out, to the theoricatical frequency of both cores joined together. It doesn't matter, because there all about multi-tasking in the first place.

Also, you obviously know nothing about "Moore's Law", which is why I'm not going to waste my time with retarded arrogance such as yours.

[skittb89]

lol, who did you say was being arrogant again? ;)

[ddrmegamixer]

Moore's Law is all to do with R&D and the next phase of the upgrade and they are ripping you off to pay for it and giving you a cheap as cooler to go with your new overprice piece of kit that will be out of date in 6 months with little benefit it has nothing to with cores it's to do with how many transistors you can fit on a die.

Your the arrogant one here it was a comment not a means to change your opinion but to express mine don't like it get back under the bridge TROLL.

[adrencg]

You obviously don't do 3D rendering and animation

[ddrmegamixer]

Well If I did it wouldn't be the processor I would be worried about it would be the gfx card or a tesla card that I would rely on more.

[Joseph9536]

I agree with you 100% Intel could really improve the stock coolers that comes with their processors. They should take a look of how AMD makes their coolers.

[Enrage13]

They are going with different stock coolers on the Westmere processors, IIRC.

[DEVILVSANGEL00]

i cant wait for one of those chips to be in an higher level i7 or i9 cpu running my latest direct x 11 gpu :D intel are the kings of performance and showing it every step,

ty intel for giving us the mainstream performance we all want,

AMD need to catch up with both the manufacturing process and the performance of the intel brand, but i beleive their chipsets are also to blame, cheaper slighty but way off the performace and not being updated as often as they need to be,

[beffer2000]

So what's the yield on that wafer?

[asjeot]

wow... what a nice Monopoly

[duckmanx88]

how is it a monopoly when you can buy a cheaper AMD processor?

[Trinitrotolaissance]

That's all you got?!

[zanchito]

We should have dropped the wafer at the end!

[Omellykim]

cool story bro

[mrcraka]

GREAT what is he holding ???

[exenter2]

A silicone wafer.

[beffer2000]

Basically he is holding a whole bunch of 32 nanometer chips. Just holding one chip would look like holding a stamp at best and is very undramatic. Holding up the whole wafer looks much sexier.

[xBloodXGusherx]

So how does that work? Do they cut these discs into small peices which are or is put into the processors in our PC's?

[exenter2]

Yes, exactly.

[liamcollister]

Lots of specialist radios+sound devices are 15 nm... intel should be at least at than :P soon we'll be in the age of the picometer

[impulsive2urge]

how can u put that size in a laptop? or even on a desktop? ITS SO BIIIGGGG!!! HUGGGGEEEE!!! GGIGGGAAANNNTTTTTTIIICCCC!!!!

[beffer2000]

they don't. It's not 1 chip, it's like a grid of over a hundred chips that will eventually get cut up.

[impulsive2urge]

is that a processor? o.O? What?

i thought processors are square with intricate patterns on it. This looks like an oversized no-hole dvd disc.

[DVHardware]

The thing that he's holding is a 300mm wafer, it contains dozens of 32nm chips.

[antonioarbona]

that is a big wafer that has many 32nm chips in it, they cut is up to get the individual chips

[impulsive2urge]

i'm wondering why is it round? i think it's more proper and efficient for production if it was square, like in many other things.

[antonioarbona]

it has to be round, its because the way they make it, they pour some form of liquid on a disk and spin it and keep doing that to form layers. i am not am expert on how its done but i am shure its something like that

[Nefret]

they are round, because they inject a seed crystal in a pot of molten silicon and pull it out very slowly, producing a very long cylinder, which then gets cut into wafers.

[venkatguitar]

@Nefret is it got to do with that epitaxial thingie? my knowledge on fabrication is zero ...

[metalmulisha98101]

they should be spending more money on 15nm reseach, which is currently under development, probly military??

[Malk007]

dude, there's something caled roadmap and those things aren't researched in one year or two, there's probably teams developing 22nm and 15nm already at intel, but the process will become industrially avaiable only in 2011/2013.

[metalmulisha98101]

thats basically what i was trying to say....

[KawazoeJapan]

Ha crap! And I just bough a server based on 45nm chips...

[GridTec]

what is that wafer thing he said in his hand? whats it do?

[KawazoeJapan]

Do you see all of those little squares on it? Well, each one might be the CPU which will get into the computer you'll buy next year :D

[PhillyKid07]

its like a template i think

[exenter2]

"That's all I got. "

:D

[INTELLINEO]

britney britney whats he is talking about im so lost help help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Spiderboy706]

yeah!!!!!!

a 32 mm processor

[akelaristera]

i want to work with you guys at Intel one day

[tupac93013]

intel kicks ass

[ndjarnag]

great vid.  I hope for more like this.

[narcoti]

I really cant see the etched processors on that imaginary completed wafer of "32nm" processors, is it just me or is it not even etched yet?

[Hughesburner]

I'm sure it's just a scrapped TW. Do you really think he would hold a process wafer in the gown room?

[th3d3wd3r]

Damn right, if it was completed it would be whizzing its way around the fab plant in a SMIF pod

[CrdBrdProjects]

It doesn't look like it....

[th3d3wd3r]

No, it's not you, it wasn't etched. I've shattered a wafer that size before once. I felt like a right cunt lol

[beffer2000]

I always thought a dropped wafer sounded a lot like a christmas tree ornament breaking

[th3d3wd3r]

That's funny, I didn't hear it. I just saw it fall, everything kind of went into slow motion and sound faded out, a little like in a car accident... I knew that was about four grand of the latest silicon done for. I felt like a right cunt lol

[beffer2000]

So how did you break that bad boy?  Playing frisbee?

Actually, I've only heard 200mm wafers break. I would have thought those dinner plate sized ones would have been in a pod, safe from fumbling fingers, no?

[Hughesburner]

300mm wafers break just as well.

[beffer2000]

Looks etched to me. If it was just a blank wafer, it would look like a mirror. I see faint lines, plus the coloring looks like a processed wafer.

[snabb]

Release Tukwila and Poulson processors already! :D