June 11, 2001 at the exhibition Computex, the company Intel announced that she managed to complete the first 20-nm transistor. Distinguished Oregon lab (Hillsboro, USA). At that time it was considered cutting-edge integrated solutions Pentium III, implemented in 180-nm technology standards.
Your Intel report was diluted by impressive Outlook. While Moore’s law was observed most accurately. Therefore, they put forward the assumption that by 2007, the number of transistors in modern chips will reach billion, and their frequency will increase up to 20 GHz. As time has shown, these forecasts did not come true. Now only the most productive solutions clock frequency may exceed the figure of 4 GHz.
Nevertheless, it is revealing which way was the semiconductor industry. 20-nm Intel eventually abandoned in favor of 22 nanometers. The first such solution to become the processors Ivy Bridge, released 23 April 2012. That is, from the first laboratory successes to really commercially successful solutions it has been almost 11 years. As you can see, to develop integrated circuits is not a trivial task.
In the framework of the exhibition Computex 2015, Intel has finally released its desktop Broadwell is built on 14 nm architecture. In late August the light came processors Skylake-S, also produced by this process. However, Intel has announced that the company’s engineers have achieved tremendous success in the development of 5-nanometer transistors. I wonder how long it will take the company to from prototypes to move to production of finished products?
Desktop processor Intel Broadwell
11 June 2012 at WWDC was presented to the new Apple MacBook Air. Of the fifth generation. This conference (23rd time) was notable because it was the first after the death of Steve jobs. It was led by current CEO Tim cook.
As always, the MacBook Air was available in two versions: with 11-inch and 13-inch display. In the first case, the resolution to 1366×768 pixels and the second pixels 1440h900. The lay of the Central Intel-generation Ivy Bridge with integrated HDG 4000. It is noteworthy that the 13-inch model was the first laptop is able to operate autonomously for more than 10 hours. The manufacturer has claimed 12 hours of operation without connection to a charger. All because of the use of super energy-efficient 22-nm chips from Intel.
The first MacBook Air was introduced on 15 January 2008. The whole point of the device lies in its name. At that time it was the thinnest and one of the lightest laptops in General. The popularity of the MacBook Air soon gave rise to the emergence of a class of such devices will be ultrabooks. Plus tried Intel, by developing a range of devices and technologies for this type of device. Now any self-respecting manufacturer produces most certainly another “MacBook Air killer”. But Apple keeps the brand.
Apple MacBook Air 2012
11 Jun 2014 the developers of the Raspberry Pi announced that since the start of sales were sold just three million of these devices. Retail this computer came third in March 2012. The simplest version of the Raspberry Pi cost $ 25. The basis of the computer were ARM-chip Broadcom BCM2835 running at 700 MHz. At the moment there are several variations of the Raspberry Pi.
The tremendous success of this single Board computer is determined by many factors. But the main is the huge number of geeks around the World who love to “Tinker” with hardware and software. That can not but rejoice.
Raspberry Pi