Is it not amazing to you that a decade ago when the Pentium 4 processor Extreme
Edition 3.46 GHz first launched, it
debuted at around $1,000 with the rest of the top tier products falling around
$600,400 and $275. And that now in 2014,
pricing is still very similar. Perhaps not on the surface, but consider this.
In the last 10 years, average gas prices in the US have gone from under $2 per
gallon to around $3.50 50 cents per gallon with general inflation in the 20
to 25% range. How is it then that as the
requisite tools and microprocessor manufacturing facilities, also known as
fabs, continue to increase in cost, the processors we use in our devices, be
they laptops, tablets, phones, or even 100 other things you wouldn't think of,
perform better, consume less power, and are available at when we adjust for
inflation, the same or lower prices year after year. I mean, they're still
basically layered metal circuits on a pure silicone wafer that's had
transistors formed in it. So, it's simple, right? Actually, no. Even though
many of the raw materials being used are similar, the actual device fabrication
process has changed dramatically. Every
2 years or so, truly, it's almost like clockwork. Intel has debuted a new way
to test the laws of physics and begin mass production of processors running
smaller and smaller transistors. Every time they shrink things down another
notch, we say they've moved to a new process node. When this happens, there
are a couple of things that usually occur. Transistors switch faster. This
translates to potentially higher clock speeds and performance. Less current is
required for transistor switching, which translates into reduced power
consumption. And the physical area taken
up per transistor goes down significantly, allowing either what is
fundamentally the same processor to be manufactured with less raw material and
be therefore lower cost or a better
processor to be manufactured with the same raw material at a similar cost. So
that's all the fuss being made right now about Intel's CoreM processor code name
Broadwell Y. the first CPU to be produced using Intel's latest 14 nanmter
manufacturing process. Now, architecturally, it's not a huge change
compared to Haswell, the last generation one, which is based on Intel's 22nmter
manufacturing process, but shrinking the size of the transistors allows the CoreM
to do some pretty amazing stuff, including deliver dual core turbo boost
capable CPUs with beefy onboard graphics that have a TDP of 4 to 4 1/2 watts. Low
enough for use in twoin-1s and other ultra thin mobile devices in the future
without requiring a cooling fan. Not to mention better performance, better
battery life, etc. And there's more. As
Intel's capacity at 14 nmter ramps up, we will see this technology deployed in
the desktop and server until it's everywhere. And then it's time to start
the whole process all over again. And that is how we keep getting better
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