WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.680 Is it not amazing to you that a decade ago when the Pentium 4 processor Extreme 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:09.840 Edition 3.46 GHz first launched, it 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:15.360 debuted at around $1,000 with the rest of the top tier products falling around 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:17.920 $600,400 and $275. And that now in 2014, 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:22.560 pricing is still very similar. Perhaps not on the surface, but consider this. 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:27.039 In the last 10 years, average gas prices in the US have gone from under $2 per 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:32.800 gallon to around $3.50 50 cents per gallon with general inflation in the 20 00:00:29.279 --> 00:00:35.040 to 25% range. How is it then that as the 00:00:32.800 --> 00:00:40.000 requisite tools and microprocessor manufacturing facilities, also known as 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:44.480 fabs, continue to increase in cost, the processors we use in our devices, be 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:49.039 they laptops, tablets, phones, or even 100 other things you wouldn't think of, 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:53.680 perform better, consume less power, and are available at when we adjust for 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:58.320 inflation, the same or lower prices year after year. I mean, they're still 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:01.280 basically layered metal circuits on a pure silicone wafer that's had 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:06.159 transistors formed in it. So, it's simple, right? Actually, no. Even though 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:11.680 many of the raw materials being used are similar, the actual device fabrication 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:13.760 process has changed dramatically. Every 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:18.720 2 years or so, truly, it's almost like clockwork. Intel has debuted a new way 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:23.680 to test the laws of physics and begin mass production of processors running 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:27.119 smaller and smaller transistors. Every time they shrink things down another 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:30.720 notch, we say they've moved to a new process node. When this happens, there 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:35.040 are a couple of things that usually occur. Transistors switch faster. This 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:38.960 translates to potentially higher clock speeds and performance. Less current is 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:44.159 required for transistor switching, which translates into reduced power 00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:46.159 consumption. And the physical area taken 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:50.479 up per transistor goes down significantly, allowing either what is 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:56.240 fundamentally the same processor to be manufactured with less raw material and 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:58.240 be therefore lower cost or a better 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:03.840 processor to be manufactured with the same raw material at a similar cost. So 00:02:01.119 --> 00:02:08.959 that's all the fuss being made right now about Intel's CoreM processor code name 00:02:06.320 --> 00:02:14.400 Broadwell Y. the first CPU to be produced using Intel's latest 14 nanmter 00:02:12.239 --> 00:02:18.239 manufacturing process. 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