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3.9 Billion Transistors on a single chip! Semiconductor Industry Record
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Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 20:11 IST |
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Bangalore: Altera Corporation announced that it set an industry milestone in semiconductor technology by delivering the most transistors ever packed onto an integrated circuit.
Altera's 28-nm Stratix V FPGAs are the semiconductor industry's first devices to feature 3.9 billion transistors. This level of functionality delivers unparalleled performance to system designers. Stratix V FPGAs are among the most sophisticated semiconductors shipping in the industry today.
Altera surpassed the known record for transistors when it taped out Stratix V FPGAs at the end of 2010, maintaining the rapid pace set by Moore's Law has allowed programmable logic to remain at the forefront of driving innovations in semiconductor technology.
They are the only FPGAs to leverage TSMC's 28-nm high-performance (28HP) process for maximum performance and bandwidth. The 28HP process, combined with optimizations made in the FPGA design, enable Altera to dramatically increase the capabilities of its high-end device family.
Features such as 28-Gbps transceivers, variable precision DSP blocks and embedded Hardcopy blocks enable Stratix V FPGAs to be leveraged in the highest performance, highest-bandwidth applications such as 100G optical transport network (OTN) multiplexing transponders, 100-GbE line cards and advanced military radar applications.