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Intel Unveils ‘3-D’ Chipmaking Approach in Bid to Boost Lead
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Intel Corp., the world’s largest semiconductor maker, unveiled a processor made with a “3-D” manufacturing technique that increases chip performance as much as 37 percent while using less power.
The new Ivy Bridge processor will be in production by the end of this year, Santa Clara, California-based Intel said today in a statement. The chip is the first to rely on 3-D tri-gate transistors, an approach almost 10 years in the making that squeezes 22-nanometer circuits onto a piece of silicon.