Intel dishes on Tiger Lake, 'SuperFin' transistors and what lies ahead

 

 

Intel has spent the past decade refining its FinFET transistor technology, . That tech gave Intel a serious performance boost at the time, since it allowed the company to design “3D” transistors that were far faster and more efficient than previous flat designs. Now, Intel is ready for its next big architecture leap, SuperFin, its name for a refined FinFET process combined with a "super metal insulator metal capacitor." For users, that mouthful means that Intel has been able to deliver its biggest speed improvement ever within a single node (in this case, its 10 nanometer architecture). And if Intel actually manages to deliver, it may help alleviate itsdisappionting 7nm chip delay.