Intel swings 25nm factory doors open for a tour de fab

Intel and Micron's recent announcement that their collective superhero body, appropriately named IM Flash, is sampling 25nm flash chips has been accompanied with a whirlwind tour of their Utah production facilities for a few lucky journalists. PC Perspective bring us the atmospheric photo above, along with some videos, as they prance about one of the most hallowed (and cleanest) environments known to gadget lovers. Apart from the die shrink, the lads also discuss Intel's reputed plans for a G3 SSD refresh some time "later this year" with snappier controllers onboard, which apparently was echoed by Micron who also intend to pump out faster processors with their SSD products. While you wait for all that to happen, hit the source link to find out how and where the stuff that gets put inside SSDs is made.

[KingLozzer Posted Feb 4th 2010 12:49PM]

Those shiny surfaces must be a bummer for fingerprints

[KingLozzer Posted Feb 4th 2010 12:50PM]

@KingLozzer Gloves. Of course they wear gloves. Think before slapping those keys.

[Ahmed Alzayani Posted Feb 4th 2010 3:26PM]

if the lithography technology is there to mass produce 25nm chips .... why stop at flash ... where is my 25nm based Core i9 ... Intel?

[biaachmonkie Posted Feb 5th 2010 2:42AM]

@Ahmed Alzayani

Flash is a far simpler design, they produce those first with any new fab tech to work out the issues before jumping into something as incredibly complex as a modern x86 CPU.