Integrated circuit transistor reaches 3.9 billion
February 07, 2023
Semiconductor company Altera Corporation announced today the new FPGA integrated circuit chip "StratixV", manufactured using TSMC's 28nm process, and integrating an astonishing 3.9 billion transistors, setting a new record in history.
Prior to this, NVIDIA Fermi's high-end graphics chip GF100/GF110 had integrated 3 billion transistors, surpassing the 3 billion mark for the first time, and the 40-nm manufacturing process used was also from TSMC. Intel’s next-generation Itanium processor Poulson, which will be launched next year, will also integrate 3.1 billion transistors in a 32-nm process.
This feat of Altera also directly proves the maturity and reliability of the TSMC 28nm process. It is understood that the Stratix V large-scale chip uses TSMC's 28nm HP high-performance process, and incorporates high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology, silicon germanium embedded second-generation strain technology, and has been successful in the end of 2010 tape.
The Stratix VFPGA family features advanced features such as 28Gbps bandwidth transceivers, variable-precision DSP blocks, customizable HardCopy modules (supports PCI-E 3.0/2.x/1.x and 40G/100G Ethernet, etc.) In areas requiring ultra-high performance and ultra-high bandwidth, such as 100GOTN optical fiber transmission network multiplex repeaters, 100GbE line cards, and advanced military radars.
Samples of the Stratix V5SGXA7, the first model of the Altera Stratix VFPGA family, have been shipped.
