Giant's pace: Intel moves toward 7nm in 2017

Mike Mayberry, Intel’s vice president of technology and manufacturing, and director of component research, today announced a semiconductor process roadmap that showcases Intel’s manufacturing process planning in the coming years.

According to this roadmap, Intel’s semiconductor process will continue to strictly enforce the Tick-Tock strategy and will be upgraded every two years. Currently being developed is the 22nm process, which is expected to be produced in the second half of the year and released in the first half of next year. Next, in 2013, it will shift to 14nm, and in 2015 it will continue to progress to 10nm.

From then on until 2017, Intel will bring us 7nm. This is the first time that semiconductor technology has entered the single digit era. As for what kind of process is used in 2019, Intel is still studying it.

In order to ensure this steady and rapid progress, Intel is always paying attention to and selecting the latest semiconductor manufacturing technologies. The main research objects in the next few years are 3-D tri-gate transistors, III-V complexes, and optical interconnections. , Computational Lithography, High-K Gallium, Raw Material Synthesis, High Density Memory, Nanowires, etc.

In more than ten years, each upgrade of Intel's technology has brought about a 30-40% improvement. The strong R&D strength is enviable. The myth of Moore's Law has also been continued. Perhaps as Intel put it: "Moore's Law is not a law of nature, but an expectation of continuous innovation."