TI reveals details of 45-nm process

Rumors had been rampant for the past 3 months or so that TI had stopped development on the 45 nm node and moved on to 40nm attributing to lower power advantages and poor performance scaling till this article was published at EETimes.

"The first 45-nanometer chip to be designed by Texas Instruments, and fabricated by a foundry, uses new processing technology never before revealed by TI. The design details of the 45-nanometer process used to lower power by 63 percent and increase performance by 55 percent, compared with its 65-nanometer process, will be revealed Tuesday (Feb. 5) by TI at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference here."

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