Architecture & Silicon Technology

At Intel, we're committed to the rapid pace of silicon process and architecture innovation and to delivering great leaps forward in performance, reliability, and energy efficiency. Powerful microarchitecture and technologies that reach beyond digital boundaries—enabling the unexpected—and challenging the status quo. That's Intel at the core. And that's business as usual.

• Learn about the Intel Tick-Tock Model of Architecture & Silicon Cadence

Leading the industry with revolutionary microarchitecture

We're developing the future of computing today with leading-edge, energy-efficient architecture that is revolutionizing the technology experience as we know it. Get in-depth information on Intel® microarchitecture:

• Next-gen 45nm Hi-k Intel® Core™ microarchitecture
• Introducing the Intel® Atom™ processor
• New instruction set innovations
• Nehalem: Next-gen Intel microarchitecture
• Intel® QuickPath Architecture
• Intel Core microarchitecture
• World's First 2-Billion Transistor Microprocessor

Leading the world in silicon and research innovation

For more than 30 years, Intel has been leading the silicon revolution by doubling transistor counts according to Moore's law, while advancing logic processes for more performance, and greater energy efficiency. Learn more about Intel silicon and technology:

• 32nm logic technology, another world's first
• 45nm Hi-k technology
• 65nm technology
• Silicon technology & manufacturing
• Silicon R&D pipeline

Expanding possibilities with Intel® multi-core technology

Intel is multiplying what's possible and dramatically impacting the computer experience with powerful leading-edge multi-core technology. Not incrementally—but monumentally. Get more on Intel multi-core technology:

• Intel multi-core technology
• Intel® quad-core processors
• Intel® dual-core technology

The future of computing: Tera-scale

We're working aggressively to realize tera-scale computing, which will enable dramatic breakthroughs in machine intelligence and energy efficiency, with processing power unheard of today. Get more on Intel® tera-scale computing:

• Tera-scale computing
• Teraflops research chip
• Intel Technology Journal
• Tera-scale computing research white paper (PDF 237KB)