by Anna Filatova
12/03/2001 | 03:59 PM
Well, it doesn’t happen very often that AMD outpaces Intel in terms of technology, but sometimes it still does take place. Two weeks ago Intel reported about a new record in the transistor field. Namely, they developed a device with a 15-nanometer gate length (0.015 micron) and maximum switch speed. And today AMD improved this record. Although they managed to set up a new record just partially: they improved the switch speed having made it equal to 0.3-ps, or 3.33 trillion switches per second. As for the gate length, they managed to get the same 0.15nm.
The AMD baby, just like Intel’s offspring, is a CMOS-based, 0.8-Volt device. AMD claims that transistors like that will be used in its processors in 2009, when the production will move to 0.03micron (that is at the same time Intel is going to do it).