What are those rumours? The first one was that Intel is having problems ramping the 45/High-K/Metal process to volume so there is going to be a second 45nm non-High-K/non-Metal process to run the lower end volume chips.
The problem with this one is that changing the process like that would basically need a complete relayout of the chip. Unless this was planned from day one, the effort involved would be huge, expensive, and very unlikely to happen.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...irl-intel-45nm
Intel has some headaches with 45 nanometre technology
22nd December 2007, 15:51
Intel has some headaches with 45 nanometre technology 
