jmke

During a press conference in its Japanese office, Intel has released a sneak-peek of its future plans and the required technology. The chip manufacturer plans to stay true to its famous tick-tock strategy and has shown a global roadmap up to the year 2022. The tick-tock model means that the company will introduce a smaller production process (tick) every two years, followed by a new processor architecture (tock).

At the moment, we're in the tock-phase of the 45nm Nehalem architecture. Next year, a new tick will take place, reducing the transistor size to 32nm, also known as the Westmere chips. In 2011, Sandy Bridge is to be released, the 32nm Westmere tock, which will then be followed up by another tick, the 22nm Ivy Bridge. By the year 2022, the end of the roadmap, Intel plans to have created transistors as small as 4 nm.

http://www.hardware.info/en-US/news/...o_4nm_in_2022/

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Kougar

Holy cow... kilobyte of cores by 2022??