Intel to demo 1GHz chip by year end
Chip company Intel has started manufacturing 0.18 micron silicon at its fab 20 chip plant and
is likely to demo a 1GHz processor by year end, it said today. Pierre Mirjolet, architecture
marketing manager at Intel EMEA, would not be tied down to when samples will go out to
customers but his slide presentation showed that could be as early as February 2000. He did,
however, say that Intel will have 0.18 micron processors in production at year end with clock
speeds 600MHz and greater.
The first .18 micron chips will, however, be mobile parts, available in June, he said.
Mirjolet said that by this time next year, Intel would have three of its fabs producing 0.18
micron technology and was likely to have two more in place shortly afterwards.
While Fab 20 in Oregon was a development plant, Mirjolet said that it will move to a full
production fab. That was to avoid what Intel describes as "knowledge leakage", where
development fabs "threw their designs over a wall" and expected other factories to
immediately start full scale production, cold.
Intel has already started shipping a flip-chip packaging for its 0.18 micron processors
within the SECC-2 package, said Mirjolet. That has the advantage of providing better
connections and so supporting faster bus speeds, he said.
Why don't you supply URLs of where you got your information? Otherwise its
nothing but unconfirmed rumors.
>Intel to demo 1GHz chip by year end
>Chip company Intel has started manufacturing 0.18 micron silicon at its fab 20 chip plant and
>is likely to demo a 1GHz processor by year end, it said today. Pierre
Mirjolet, architecture
February 2000. He did,
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Reported by Kanishka Wanasundera
Bye Bye Megahertz, Hello Gigahertz: Intel 1GHz processor by year end
February 14, 1999
CPU juggernaut Intel expects to demo a 1GHz processor by the end of 1999.
Architecture marketing manager Pierre Mirjolet said the company will have
0.18 micron processors in production by the end of the year with clock
speeds of 600MHz and greater. The first 0.18 micron chips will be available
in June, he said. Intel has already begun shipping a flip-chip packaging
for the 0.18 micron processors within the SECC-2 package.
