30 percent more performance, 40 percent lower power consumption.
Texas Instruments, following (as you'd expect) the same route as other chip makers, is heading towards a 45nm production process that will deliver chips with greater performance and lower power requirements.
TI's chips will be destined for digital signal processing and mobile phones - where performance and battery life are perhaps the most crucial. TI intends to use the new manufacturing process to deliver higher density chips with more chips per wafer, and to help them in production of their System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions.
TI will be using a number of different manufacturing techniques at 45nm, depending on the destination of the chips being created. From TI's press release:
TI's low power 45-nm offering will extend battery life in portable products, while offering the performance to handle advanced multimedia functionality in a tightly integrated design. A mid-range process will support TI DSPs and TI's high performance ASIC library for communications infrastructure products. TI's highest performance 45-nm option supports MPU- class performance.
TI's first 45nm SoC products will be sampled towards the end of next year and in production mid-2008.
