Innovation at Intel – From Nano-Scale to Tera-Scale Dr. Praveen Vishakantaiah President Intel Technology India
Moore’s Law Drives Innovation High-K Metal Gate Transistor at 45 nm
Low Resistance Layer
First New Transistor Metal Gate Architecture Hafnium in 35 years! Oxide
Drain
Si Substrate
Phase Change Memory (PCM) Below 45 nm Chalcogenide Storage
Source
Poly crystalline SI
Heater
Source: Intel
Non-planar Tri-Gate Transistor Beyond 32 nm
Gate
Carbon Nanotube Transistor
Incremental Innovation – Tick Tock 1993 1997 1999 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 0.8µ 0.6µ 0.35µ 0.25µ 0.18µ 0.13µ 90nm 65nm 45nm Penryn Family
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Core™ Core™ 2 Processor
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Core Processor
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Pentium® Pentium® 4 Processor Pentium III Processor Pentium II Processor Pentium Processor
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Snapshot of Recent Multi-Disciplinary Innovation
45nm
Core 2 Duo
Silverthorne/LPIA
Nehalem uArch
USB/PCI Express
Power Management Quad Core through Package Technology
vPro
WiMAX and 802.11n
Bolstering Intel Architecture Graphics IA++
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IA++
Low Power …
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IA++
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45nm Silverthorne
Cache
Bringing IA Programmability and Parallelism to High Throughput Computing Ease of scaling for software ecosystem Array of enhanced IA cores – Scientific Computing, RMS, Visualization, Financial Analytics & Health applications
Teraflops of performance
Poulsbo Silverth orne
Silverthorne 45nm, Menlow Platform Full Internet in Your Pocket
Advances in Integration and Packaging Multi Chip Packages
60% Smaller CPU Packages
Wifi + WiMAX
Processor + Chipsets + Accelerators
100% Lead Free Technology* Copper Bump TinTin-SilverSilver-Copper Solder Copper Pad
* 2008: All 45nm CPU’s Halogen Free
Innovation in Memory Technology Robson Technology • • • •
NAND Flash Cache 2X* Faster App Load Times 2X* resume From Hibernate 0.4W average power savings
* in Santa Rosa platform
Solid State Drives • Embedded in a range of devices from handhelds to servers • 1/10th the Power* • > 10X Performance* • 1,000X More Durable* * Compared to HDD
SATA SSD Prototype
Innovation in Communication Technology RF / Platform Interference Mitigation
Digitally Enhanced Radio RFIC
Today’s Notebook Tomorrow’s Ultra Mobile Devices
Worldwide Regulatory Environment
7+ radios 2 radios Tunable Front-End Modules & Antenna
Unleashing the Era of Tera Tera Bits – Si Photonics
Optical Fiber Multiplexer
40 Gbps modulator
Modulators
Hybrid lasers
256 KB SRAM per core 4X C4 bump density 3200 thruthru-silicon vias
Many core chip
Memory ThruThru-Silicon Via
Package
Tera Bytes – 3D Stacked Memory
Innovation in Tera-scale Software RMS Workloads
Many Core Linux
Body tracking Recognition
Cancer cell detection
= AMPS
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Financial analytics Mining
Media search and retrieval Ray-tracing Ray Data Parallelism
Synthesis
Physical simulation
Nested Data Parallelism RaceRace-Free Irregular Parallel Computation
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Transactional Memory* Ensures concurrent access with no errors
A $100 $50 B $200
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C $200
Threads + Vector ISA * Hardware Assisted
Innovation for Emerging Regions Information technology suitable for emerging regions – feasible cost, complexity, maintainability Driving application, connect rural health centers for telemedicine
Research Activities
Aravind hospital treats 1,400 patients
a month 88 (6.3%) referred for Theni hospital for cataract surgery >200 (15%) referred for another serious problem (E.g. glaucoma, cornea problems)
… and Closing the Digital Divide Motivates Us
World of Opportunities Energy Independence
Healthcare Enable affordable and accessible healthcare
Ensure renewable and affordable energy
www.continuaalliance.org
www.energystar.gov
Education
Security
Improve quality of math and science
Secure human, material and information flow
www.ncrel.org/sdrs/
www.dhs.gov/xres/
Global Warming Lower emissions and improve conservation www.globalwarming.org