Intel is still one of the few processors developers that can afford their own content production facilities. On the development of new lithographic technologies and their development Intel spends billions of dollars, a significant portion of its budget on research and development. Since its founding in 1968, the processor giant is making efforts to maintain the empirical principle, known as Moore's Law. In the three years before becoming one of Intel founders , Gordon Moore in anniversary made the historic announcement. He suggested that the density of transistors per unit area of the chip will double every year, and the cost of manufacturing chips will be in proportion to the decline. Later, in 1975 : the doubling of transistor density should occur every two years.
Yesterday, Intel announced that on April 19 marks the 50th anniversary of the so-called "Moore's Law", which determined the development of the entire electronics industry for decades to come. As he admits, Gordon Moore, over the years it has become a rule of thumb to follow-up in the principles that should be all the market players. Then, in 1965, to implement a particular function was easier through a set of discrete elements, rather than through the integrated circuit, so the economic part of Moore's Law was considered no less important than technical. It was necessary to convince market participants that the increase in the density of transistors on a chip is able to make it cheaper. On the other hand, modern microprocessor 14 nm Intel 3500 times faster than the first Intel 4004 processor, while it costs 60 000 times less.
The first Intel microprocessor was released in 1971, it contained 2,300 transistors. Today, the 14-nm processors Broadwell contain 1.3 billion. Transistors.
Before Intel faces serious challenges to preserve the viability of "Moore's Law". Each new stage of the lithographic process requires to learn more resources and time, and many industry analysts predict the exhaustion of the potential of silicon as the main material for the creation of microprocessors in the foreseeable future. The more interesting to observe what decisions will be offered by Intel and its partners to maintain the pace of technological progress. Related Products :
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