Leading chip company Intel Corp. has started sampling an Itanium-2 64-bit microprocessor that is made by linking together 1.72 billion transistors. The processor, codenamed Montecito, has been ...

Intel has revealed more details on its "breakthrough" glass substrate technology - a new way to manufacture processors that will dramatically boost performance ...

Intel's new transistor and packaging research is primarily focused on advancing CPU performance and efficiency, closing the distance between traditional single-die processors and new chiplet-based ...

For any given processor it’s generally easy to find a statistic on the number of transistors used to construct it, with the famous Intel 8086 CPU generally said to contain 29,000 transistors.

On the 75th anniversary of the transistor, Intel promises that microchips will have at least 10x more transistors by the end of the decade.

Paul Otellini, Intel's president and chief operating officer, in a keynote address dropped hints that the company is developing several highly-integrated chips, including a 1-billion transistor ...

In contrast, Intel's Broadwell Core m processor built on the company's 14-nanometer technology packs 1.3 billion transistors and occupies an area of 82 square millimeters.

When AMD first started talking about its new Bulldozer processors there were a lot of excited geeks out there. On paper, the processor sounded really good with its 2 billion transistors and lots ...

Intel has dished out details of a brand new Itanium quad-core CPU with a record-busting two billion transistors. Like all Itaniums, the new chip is aimed at high end servers and computer clusters ...

The company has already been stacking chip dies on top of each other to create denser processors that can run more efficiently. But it’s also been working on doing the same for transistors, the ...

The processor, codenamed Montecito, was discussed as far back as August 2002, but it is now sampling to some Intel customers, a company spokesman said. Montecito exceeds the billion-transistor count ...