Intel's 3D Tri-Gate transistors get smaller, faster, more energy efficient (photos)

May 4, 2011 2:45 PM PDT

Intel today announced what it called a major technical breakthrough and historic innovation in microprocessing, introducing a 3D transistor called Tri-Gate that will result in both performance and power improvements in the 22-nanometer "Ivy Bridge" chips.

Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's architecture group, holds a silicon wafer produced using the new 22nm 3D manufacturing process.

Photo by James Martin/CNET

Caption by James Martin

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