Intel公司在最近的国际固态电路会议上透露,它已试制出运行在100MHz的实验性i486芯片。这种芯片用0.8μm CMOS代替目前采用的1μmCMOS,从而使芯片更小、速度更快。更重要的是,Intel公司采用三层互连导体设计代替原来的两层设计,从而减小了门互连距离,使芯片速度更快。 Intel revealed at a recent conference at the International Solid State Circuit that it has prototyped an experimental i486 chip running at 100MHz. This chip replaces the currently used 1μm CMOS with 0.8μm CMOS, making the chip smaller and faster. More importantly, Intel replaced the original two-layer design with a three-layer interconnect design to reduce gate-to-gate interconnect distances and make chips faster.