Achronix to Use Intels 22nm Manufacturing
Achronix Semiconductor Corp, a privately-held fabless corporation based in San Jose, will manufacture their future Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) products on Intels 22 nanometer (nm) process technology. Achronix also talked about down the road they are looking at 15, 11 and 8 nanometers process technologies!
As many of you know, Intel enjoys a multi-year lead on manufacturing and process technology. Our factories or fabs are our prized possession. In fact, we just recently announced another $6-8 billion multi-year investment in manufacturing in the US alone. As Senior VP Brian Krzanich told CNET, we now have line of sight to 22, 15, 11 and 8 nanometers, with first 22nm products expected to be in production in the second half of 2011. Mind you, a nanometer measures in at one billionth of a meter. These days, more than 10 million transistors can fit in the period at the end of this sentence, and we can now make chips the size of a fingernail that have about one billion transistors inside them.
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