by Anna Filatova
04/23/2002 | 11:50 PM
No, it doesn’t at all mean that in the near future we will see processors working at 10GHz in the market. Intel has simply ordered a test version of the EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) lithographic equipment (by the Dutch ASML Company), which will be used for production of chips with 10GHz core clock frequency in the future. This is expected to happen in 2005 when Intel will be ready to use 0.065micron technology (P1264)
And in the meanwhile the company will be testing the new lithographic equipment and manufacture test pieces of semiconductor wafers with 0.13micron and then 0.09micron technology.