The Intel Develop Forum revealed many interesting progressions and while we are still awaiting Intel’s first 45 nm processor (expected November 12), Intel is well on the way with its 32 nm manufacturing process. During IDF namely presented a working sample of a 32 nm circuit, and a whole 300 mm wafer with 32 nm chips. The process itself is a second generation high-k and metal gate technology, and the first working chips Intel has produced incorporate both logic and memory (SRAM). This is an important first step and now we can only await the announcement of working Nehalem chips in a year or so. Processors based on this very manufacturing process is expected to arrive in 2009.
