英特爾推新款3D芯片：移動(dòng)大戰(zhàn)全面升級(jí)
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????全世界約80%的電腦都搭載了英特爾處理器,。但在由對(duì)手ARM Holdings授權(quán)的芯片所主宰的移動(dòng)設(shè)備領(lǐng)域,，如智能手機(jī)和平板電腦,，英特爾公司就落在人后了,。 ????不過,，如果英特爾能盡快在移動(dòng)芯片上應(yīng)用一項(xiàng)前景看好的全新技術(shù)，這一局面可能很快就會(huì)發(fā)生改觀,。 ????上周三,，英特爾公司在舊金山披露了一項(xiàng)創(chuàng)新的生產(chǎn)技術(shù)。公司宣稱,，在未來數(shù)年內(nèi),，這項(xiàng)技術(shù)可使微芯片上容納更多的晶體管。這一“重大技術(shù)突破”是代號(hào)為“常青藤之橋”的22納米微處理器,，它將是首款運(yùn)用3D晶體管的大容量芯片,。 ????英特爾公司的首席執(zhí)行官保羅?歐德寧在新聞發(fā)布會(huì)上表示：“英特爾公司的科學(xué)家和工程師再一次革新了晶體管,，這一次是應(yīng)用了三維技術(shù)。隨著我們將摩爾定律（Moore's Law）推進(jìn)到全新領(lǐng)域,，這一技術(shù)將創(chuàng)造出令人震驚,、重塑世界的各種設(shè)備來?！?/p> ????“常青藤之橋”前景看好——英特爾公司表示,，與2D的晶體管相比，全新的晶體管性能提升37%,，同時(shí)耗電量則不到前者的一半,。公司還表示，3D晶體管由于耗電量較少,，是小型手持設(shè)備的理想之選,。不過，這一“重大革新”足以讓英特爾公司在已經(jīng)落在人后的移動(dòng)設(shè)備競(jìng)賽中加速趕上嗎,？ ????在沒有更多信息的情況下,，這一問題是很難回答的——比如，英特爾的全新晶體管到底何時(shí)會(huì)用于移動(dòng)設(shè)備的處理器——公司拒絕透露這一計(jì)劃,。不過,，英特爾公司倒是為其傳統(tǒng)的產(chǎn)品線制定了生產(chǎn)計(jì)劃，它展示了臺(tái)式機(jī)和筆記本電腦的樣機(jī),，并宣布,，其用于個(gè)人電腦和服務(wù)器的全新芯片將于2011年底投產(chǎn)。但是,，全新的3D晶體管將何時(shí)，以及于哪兒用于移動(dòng)設(shè)備則還是無從了解,。 ????因此,，盡管“常青藤之橋”將讓英特爾公司拓展摩爾定律的應(yīng)用，并在傳統(tǒng)的個(gè)人電腦處理器市場(chǎng)上讓公司在競(jìng)爭(zhēng)中再度獲得顯著優(yōu)勢(shì),，但該公司不披露其為移動(dòng)領(lǐng)域所制訂的詳細(xì)計(jì)劃,，還是讓人頗為失望。 ????市場(chǎng)研究公司In-Stat的首席技術(shù)戰(zhàn)略師吉姆?麥克格雷格表示：“英特爾公司正為了躋身移動(dòng)領(lǐng)域而奮力一戰(zhàn),。他們需要一些東西來超越主導(dǎo)移動(dòng)領(lǐng)域的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手,。” ????譯者：清遠(yuǎn) |
????Intel processors are found in about 80% of the world's computers. But the company lags behind in mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, where chips licensed by rival ARM Holdings (ARMH) rule. ????That may soon change, if Intel (INTC) can get a promising new technology onto mobile chips fast enough. ????On Wednesday in San Francisco, the company unveiled an innovative production technology that it says will allow it to cram more transistors onto microchips for years to come. The "major technical breakthrough" is a 22nm microprocessor codenamed Ivy Bridge, which will be the first high-volume chip to use 3-D transistors. ????"Intel's scientists and engineers have once again reinvented the transistor, this time utilizing the third dimension," Intel CEO Paul Otellini said in a press release. "Amazing, world-shaping devices will be created from this capability as we advance Moore's Law into new realms." ????Ivy Bridge is promising -- Intel says its new transistors will provide up to a 37% performance increase and consume less than half the power than their 2-D counterparts. The company also says the 3-D transistors will be ideal for use in small handheld devices since they use less electricity. But is this "radical redesign" enough to get Intel up to speed in the mobile race, where it's flailing behind? ????It's hard to answer that question without a little more information -- like when Intel's new transistors will actually make their way into processors for mobile devices -- which the company declined to disclose. Instead, Intel laid out plans for its more traditional product line, showing off prototype desktops and laptops and announcing that production of its new chips for PCs and servers would start by the end of 2011. But when and where the new 3-D transistors will work their way onto mobile devices remains murky. ????So while Ivy Bridge will help Intel extend Moore's Law and give the company a significant advantage over its competitors in the more traditional PC processors market, it's disappointing that the company isn't offering more details on its game plan for mobile. ????"Intel is fighting for their life to get in to mobile," says Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, a market research firm. "They need something to leapfrog their competitors who dominate mobile." |
