Intel starts Fabs 32 - High Volume 45nm factory
Recently, AMD announced that they are going to start the fabrication of their 45nm CPUs by the mid-2008 but Intel has already on the verge of finishing the 45nm race this November. Intel today announced that they have fully set up the 45nm fabrication factory named as Fabs 32 in Arizona and have already started to produce 45nm processors. This is Intel's 6th Fabrication factory for producting 300mm wafers and Intel has told that with the 45nm technology they are going to use a special transistor types which are much smaller, much faster and prevents energy leakage to a much greater extent. Intel said that a single period of English grammar can accommodate more than 2 million transistors of such types. Moreover, the new transistors will be more free from any halogens and hence leading to clean environment. Clearly, these new transistors are highly energy efficient and holds the key to Intel's plan to UMPCs. Well, AMD tried to convince their clients that it will start up with 45nm but now it seems that AMD will be quite a long way behind Intel which might make impossible for it to come closer to Intel anytime sooner when it actually start producing the 45nm processors.
