Nano To Tera

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

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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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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

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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

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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