Intel-Israel Helps Make Coolest Computer Chip Ever
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- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:00:02 -0500
Intel-Israel Helps Make Coolest Computer Chip Ever
by Gil Ronen
Global computer company Intel unveiled the latest addition to its processor
family this week: a new chipset temporarily named "Penryn." The innovative
processor is based on hafnium, a metal that is used in transistor production
as well as in nuclear plant control rods. It reduces electricity loss
through the use of third-generation silicon materials, and also does away
with the need to incorporate eco-unfriendly lead and halogen in the
production process.
"These are the biggest transistor advancements in 40 years," Intel
co-founder Gordon Moore said. The latest Penryn innovation drew upon
expertise and experience accumulated during the Israeli development of the
Centrino processor, company spokesman Koby Bahar told Israel21c.
The Penryn innovation was initially developed at Intel's centers in
California, but the offices of Intel Israel, centered at their mammoth
Research and Development Center in Haifa, played a crucial role in working
out how to manufacture the new chip on a commercial scale.
The Haifa center forms a major component of Intel's global product pipeline.
Founded over 30 years a
The transistors are so small that more than two million could fit onto the
period at the end of this sentence.
go with only five staffers, Intel Israel - with large facilities also
located at Petah Tikva, Jerusalem and Kiryat Gat - now employs nearly 7,000
people, and pumped more than $1.2 billion of export revenue into the Israeli
economy last year.
Intel Israel scored its biggest coup to date in the 2003 development of the
Centrino mobile chipset. The Centrino technology, initially designed for use
in laptop computers, proved so fast and energy-effective that it rapidly
began to appear in desktop PCs around the world as well.
The greenest chip yet
The latest development, though, is not just small and quick, but is also
touted as being non-destructive to nature. Penryn boasts an ability to
reduce the power leakage which normally manifests itself in a processor unit
as heat. It also has transistors measuring a mere 45 nanometers each - so
small, that is, that more than two million could fit onto the period at the
end of this sentence. That doesn't leave much room for energy loss - making
the Penryn, in Intel's phrase, the "coolest" processor technology to date.
The company also has replaced lead-based solder components used in existing
designs with tin, copper or silver alloys, and is also set to remove halogen
based materials, which can generate ozone-damaging gases during production.
Intel claims that this gives it a new ability to deliver "faster and more
energy-efficient processors that are better for the environment." The firm
is marketing the processor with an image of sunflowers - so chosen for the
plant's ability to remove heavy metals from contaminated soils - as a visual
metaphor for the lead-free, green image which the company hopes to
cultivate.
The Penryn processors will become available commercially within the next 45
days. While their manufacture is currently centered in Arizona, the product
is soon set to gain a further Israeli flavor. Next year, Intel is due to
open a state-of-the-art chipset production facility near Kiryat Gat - in an
area known for its sunflower fields.
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