Intel has released information about the progress in transistor development. Intel has designed a P transistor also known as III-V, after its position in the periodic table. Together with Intel’s III-V N transistors that is unveiled earlier this year, Intel believes it has the building blocks for the logic circuits of tomorrow, using both P and N transistors. Intel is currently working on using these new transistors in microprocessors, which are believed to turn the entire CPU market upside down.
The transistors require only half the voltage of today’s equivalents and consume only a tenth of the current. Would Intel build its, today, most powerful processor, Core i7, with the new transistor technology the power consumption could be reduced with as much as 90%.
A Core i7 processor operating at over 3GHz working in the 12W TDP envelope sounds almost surreal. Or why not powerful mobile processors with power consumptions less than 1W for the ever growing notebook market, not to mention the very fast growing netbook market. Today’s ULV Core 2 Duo models has a specified power consumption of maximal 10W, which just feels gluttonous in comparison.
When we will see Intel’s new transistors in actions is something only Intel knows.
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