Scaling means nothing after 130nm?

[Jason]

Seems thats what IBM's Chief Technology Officer thinks.

"The real roadmaps going forward are going to be innovation roadmaps, not lithography roadmaps. It's not just lithography that is driving progress," Meyerson said."

Someone needs to tell him that consumers stopped buying strictly based on nm numbers a while ago. Smaller is not necessarily better. TWL still wants to know why it takes IBM so long to admit the obvious. The 75GXP Deskstar series was publicly known as trouble long before IBM popped an eyeball to the truth.

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i think IBM has known this for a long time. They focused on innovative, efficient design for their new processor while Intel has been the driving force to smaller and smaller lithography processes. AMD knew this too. That's why AMD and IBM processors get similar horsepower to intel, at times better, at times worse, with slower clockspeeds with bigger nm.