That will provide key advantages over rivals building quad-core mobile processors using older 40 nanometer technology, such as Nvidia.
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And while Intel reported strong server processor sales, the company is also counting on its 45-nanometer technology to pay off in notebooks.
Intel thinks it has nailed the 32-nanometer process: It reports that defect rates for the first chips in its development factories are comparable to what it saw when it switched to 45-nanometer technology two years ago, a transition that went smoothly.
Shipments of 28-nanometer process technology more than doubled during the quarter and accounted for 13% of total wafer revenues. 40-nanometer accounted for 27% of total wafer revenues, and 65-nanometer was 22%.
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The announcement comes as the Santa Clara, Calif-based processor company detailed its long-anticipated shift to so-called 22 nanometer process technology.
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Even if Apple turns to another manufacturer to build its chips, it will almost surely move past the 45 nanometer process technology to build the processors now found in the iPad and iPhone.
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SanDisk is building both new SSDs using its industry-leading 19 nanometer (nm) technology, the world's smallest, most advanced manufacturing process node.
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Looking into the second quarter, Samsung expects to improve profitability in the chip business with a recovery in PC DRAM price and by expanding its new product category with mobile application processors based on 32 nanometer-class process technology.
If the light were not infrared but were instead in the visible spectrum, there was enough of it that the naked eye could have seen a glow, according to Phaedon Avouris , manager of nanometer scale science and technology at IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) Research Laboratories in Yorktown Heights, N.
Kepler is based on 28-nanometer (nm) process technology and succeeds the 40-nm NVIDIA Fermi architecture, which was first introduced into the market in March 2010.
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Its technology vaporizes germanium sulfide and cools it into 20-30 nanometer layers that, as they're combined, turn into nanoflowers: elegant structures that might look like the carnation on a prom dress or tuxedo, but are really energy storage cells with much more capacity than traditional cells occupying the same area.
By first splitting the molecules into very small lines and then using an equally rare nanoimprinting technology to put them into circular tracks, HGST can create platters with a 10 nanometer-wide bit pattern that's twice as dense as current hard drives.
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