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Intel (INTC) on Tuesday unveiled two silicon wafers built using 45- and 32-nanometer scale technology that are expected to produce smaller and more efficient chips for the next generation of servers and PCs.
Intel chief executive Paul Otellini heralded the innovations as a chance for Intel to push the envelope of performance in microprocessors, memory, and graphics chips.

Intel said it will move forward with its plans to introduce 15 new 45-nm processors — code-named Penryn — on Nov. 12 and another 20 — code-named Nehalem — in the first quarter of 2008. Intel said its 32-nm process technology is on track to begin production in 2009.

To make his point, Otellini held up a 32-nm wafer of SRAM memory processors containing more than 1.9 billion transistors. He subsequently held up a 45-nm wafer that has more than 731 million transistors on it.

Very cool, the move towards a more energy efficient components has to be a good thing, and the vendors including Intel are continuing to make progress in this area that said though, we need though to continue the momentum on server efficiency, on the network, the disk as well to tackle the issue from all the bases.

Intel’s new chips and technologies do sound very cool and I look forward to seeing what benefits we can achieve from them and the new servers based on them.

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