Intel unveils 22nm 3D transistor for Ivy Bridge chips

[linhely]

I know IBM was working on a 3D die a while back but couldn't figure out a good way of dissipating the heat from the lower levels...I guess using these 'fins' instead of having multiple levels was how Intel got around that.

[Beta-brain]

Been reading an article in Micro Mart mag about these chips and it's near impossible to put the size of the 22nm architecture into something meaningful but this might help, a single strand of human hair averages around 50,000, not a typo, fifty thousand nm in diameter and the smallest known viruses are 20nm across so Intel are working on the organic scale, I'm impressed!