IBM pushes 32-nanometer chips with BASF deal Options

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IBM pushes 32-nanometer chips with BASF deal Posted by XanTium | June 22 21:11 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From news.yahoo.com: [QUOTE] IBM will work with the German chemical company BASF Group to produce a new generation of chips with feature sizes of 32 nanometers, the companies said Friday. The partnership will produce chips scheduled to reach the market in 2010, IBM said. Chips with circuits and other features of 32nm use less electricity and have smaller dimensions than chips built with 45nm or 60nm, allowing vendors of smartphones, notebook PCs, and other electronics to pack more processing power in their products. The two companies hope to create an improved approach to using chemicals in lithography, a method of manufacturing chips by stacking layers of different materials like a cake, then etching away part of each layer to create the tiny components of a microprocessor. Work will begin immediately at IBM's facility in Yorktown Heights, New York, and at BASF's headquarters in Ludwigshafen, Germany, said Ronald Goldblatt, a distinguished engineer and senior manager at IBM Research. IBM plans to use the new chemicals across its entire range of products, which include its Power6 high-end server chip announced on May 21, a variety of ASICs for telephony backbone platforms, and its Cell Broadband Engine chip used to process high-end graphics data in gaming consoles, including Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, and Nintendo's Wii. [/QUOTE] Full Story: news.yahoo.com

[m_hael]

something slightly amiss with the final part of that press release....

IBM chips are featured in all the consoles... but it certainly isn't the CELL broadband chip in all of them.

[bucko]

Nice but I think IBM should concentrate on producing/manufacturing the 65NM CPU for the 360 first.