Ironically, the greater IT accomplishments become, the harder they are to see. Consider Intel’s latest achievement: the new Broadwell architecture that shrank microprocessor manufacturing from the previous generation 22nm Haswell process to 14nm. Since a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter — a human hair is about 100,000nm thick — you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference without an electron microscope. Practically speaking, though, Broadwell increases the number of transistors Intel can squeeze onto a microprocessor by a third.
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Why You Should Still Care About Moore's Law
Posted by: Charles King August 19, 2014 07:43 AMIronically, the greater IT accomplishments become, the harder they are to see. Consider Intel’s latest achievement: the new Broadwell architecture that shrank microprocessor manufacturing from the previous generation 22nm Haswell process to 14nm. Since a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter — a human hair is about 100,000nm thick — you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference without an electron microscope. Practically speaking, though, Broadwell increases the number of transistors Intel can squeeze onto a microprocessor by a third.