News on September 29, Moore's Law, which has affected the semiconductor industry, has been questioned in recent years. NVIDIA likes to emphasize that Moore's Law is dead, but Intel is a die-hard defender of Moore's Law. CEO Kissinger emphasized that Moore's Law will not die. Will be alive and well, they will get the 5th generation CPU process in 4 years.
The five generations of processes are Intel 7, Intel 4, Intel 3, Intel 20A and Intel 18A, of which Intel 7 was the first process on the 12th-generation Core at the end of last year, and the 13th-generation Core will continue to be used. Next year, Intel 4 will be upgraded for the first time. Support EUV lithography process. However, Intel is really ahead of the process again in the 20A and 18A two-generation processes. Starting from 20A, it entered the angstrom-level node, abandoning FinFET transistors and switching to GAA transistors, which is equivalent to the 2nm and 1.8nm levels of friends.
At the same time, Intel will also launch two major breakthrough technologies on 20A and 18A, namely RibbonFET and PowerVia. RibbonFET is Intel's realization of Gate All Around transistors, and it will become the company's first new transistor since FinFET was first introduced in 2011. Architecture. This technology speeds up transistor switching while achieving the same drive current as a multi-fin structure, but in a smaller footprint.
PowerVia is Intel's unique and industry-first backside power delivery network that optimizes signal transfer by eliminating the need for front-side power routing on the wafer. Intel CEO Henry Kissinger also revealed the latest progress of the 18A process. The first chip will be taped out by the end of this year. Although he did not mention the specific chip model, being able to go to this step means that Intel's "1.8 nm” process already has a fairly high level of maturity.
