Jesus. When I worked at Intel, .18 to ~.14 MICRON chips were a big deal. (I think that was the jump then... I am a bit foggy, this was in 1998).<p>I also recall when I was there having conversations and hearing the questions of "Why don't we just stack multiple processors on a single die?" -- and how some people thought that was going to be impossible.
Notable: these are all just low-power ultrabook range CPUs.<p>If you want high-power Broadwell CPUs that go into regular faster notebooks (e.g. Macbook Pro, workstation Thinkpads, all gaming notebooks like MSI, Gigabyte, Asus, Clevo, Alienware, etc), you will need to wait at least till mid 2015.<p>Basically if you do anything non-trivial with CPU (gaming, rendering, compiling), Broadwell CPUs launched so far are not interesting for you, you will need to resort to old Haswell CPUs.<p>Intel's marketing managed to downplay this pretty well, most of news didn't really notice this.<p>------<p>Source: Intel Broadwell presentation slides<p><a href="http://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/Sonstiges/Prozessoren/Broadwell_ULV/5th_Gen_Core_LLPT_Final_16Dec2014_PDF-page-004.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/Sonstiges/P...</a>
> "2/3 of the processor are dedicated for graphics"<p>That makes me sad. I would like to see a desktop version that instead puts in more cores or whatever as when combined with any video card (GTX XXX or AMD XXX) 2/3 of the processor are simply not used!
While on average CPU's do not represent significant power draw anymore, it is worthwhile to remember the "on average" part. As soon as you load your system battery life drops down by at least half, so any kind of efficiency gains are awesome.
So is this a breakthrough in transistor size? Why or why not? How did they overcome all the challenges they were saying in the 2000's that they would have to reach this size?
I was hoping for deeper tech dirt and architecture commentary from eetimes. This article didn't say anything I didn't read in Ars Technica yesterday. :-/
Everything is coming together for a new Macbook Air. I'm expecting a super thin Macbook Air with a radical new design. They are removing the Fn keys from keyboard to make it simpler. This is what I heard from someone inside.