posted by Kari Aakre on November 19, 2007
“Hafnium high-k, what?” you ask? What does it all mean?
Yes, I know. To many of us this all sounds like a bunch of technical mumbo jumbo and makes us all feel like we’re back in high school chemistry class.
A week ago Intel launched its first 45nm processors. As part of the launch and in the months leading up to it, we talked a lot about how these processors were made with reinvented transistors.
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tagged: 45nm, hafnium, high-k, processor, transistor
posted by Christine Dotts on November 16, 2007
You may have seen sunflowers in bloom on the Intel website, YouTube and the Intel Online Press Room and wondering what do Intel and sunflowers have in common? 
posted by Nick Knupffer on November 04, 2007
Yes, I made a super-short 5 min video about the DARPA Urban Challenge. The event was SUPERB FUN and very well produced. I would like to congratulate the two Intel sponsored teams (who came 1st and 2nd!) as well as all the cars that made it into the finals. Robot cars have come a LONG way since those first faltering baby steps out in the desert at the 1st Grand Challenge in 2004.
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tagged: DARPA Urban Challenge, quad core, robotcar, robotics, Stanford
posted by Ken Kaplan on November 03, 2007
The first tech reviews are out, and Legit Reviews said “the new Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 is the fastest processor on the market today.”
Even TIME Magazine named Intel’s new 45nm process one of “The Best Inventions Of The Year.”
You could say the stars aligned behind the creation of Intel’s newest 45nm generation of Core 2 processors. Smaller, faster and energy efficiency all play key roles from the new manufacturing plant all they way through to the revolutionary, tiny transistors they make using 45nm Hafnium-based high-k metal gate silicon technology.
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posted by Christine Dotts on November 02, 2007
In just 45 days, Intel will honor the 60th anniversary of the invention of the transistor. On December 16th, 1947 the first practical point-contact transistor was built at Bell Labs. Transistors are the fundamental on/off electrical switches for every device we use – TVs, PCs, laptops, alarm clocks, cell phones, MP3 players – even cars – everything. All of us take them for granted – like Rodney used to say, they “don’t get no respect.” (Yes, I am probably revealing my age here) Yet one could argue it is one of the most important inventions of the 20th century, as the incessant and relentless pace of discovery and change is directly attributable to this one little device.
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