Intel Silvermont bring three-dimensional transistors for the line of Atom

Intel is not so long ago reported that in the near future will provide solutions to the market made on the basis of three-dimensional transistors. So-called 3D effect transistors (tri-gate transistor, 3D transistor), must become more energy efficient and have much better performance than all the modern solutions. They will be produced by 22-nm process and will appear in the next generation of mass-platform code-named Intel Ivy Bridge. Naturally, less productive and more cost solutions offered in the line of Intel Atom will have a similar architecture later. It will happen at approximately 2013 and later generation in comparison with "older" CPUs. The platform will be called Intel Silvermont.

If the calculations of engineers from Intel are true, then the increase of energy efficiency and performance of Intel Atom processors allow the company to compete successfully with ARM-solutions in the segment of low-power system-on-chip. Until the end of this year, Intel will implement a full transition to the production of processors for 45-nm technology to 32-nm technology. 32-nanometer processors and will be an intermediate generation of Intel Atom before moving on to 22-nanometer platform Intel Silvermont.