Posted on 06/06/2017 5:30:17 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
IBM has shown for the first time that its stacked nanosheet technology can outperform today's best FinFET nanometer chips.
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Just two years after developing a 7nm chip with 20 billion transistors, IBM has taken the wraps off technology that will usher in smaller, 5nm chips with higher performance and greater efficiency.
IBM and its Research Alliance partners, GlobalFoundries and Samsung, announced the 5nm breakthrough today, which offers a path to delivering chips with significant improvements on today's leading 10nm chips.
IBM hopes the technology will lead to 30-billion transistor chips that are more capable of meeting tomorrow's demands for artificial intelligence, virtual reality and mobile devices.
Rather than use current FinFET or "fin field-effect transistor" architecture, IBM has been exploring stacked nanosheet transistors, aided by a technique that allows it to adjust the chip's design for improved power and performance in ways that FinFET can't.
Chips based on IBM's nanosheet 5nm technology will offer 40 percent greater performance than today's 10nm chips, or a 75 percent power savings at the same performance.
(Excerpt) Read more at zdnet.com ...
Does this mean a new & improved version of “Pong” is coming soon?
A bit more om the 5 nm chip .
That’s got a better chance than a user friendly and intuitive lotus notes.
What comes after nanometer on the scale of small? That’s where we’re headed.
I believe a new release of “Donkey Kong” is also in the works ... ;-)
Not sure what I am looking at!
Wayne Gretzky’s 3-D Hockey.
What would be a breakthrough at IBM is them finding some way to majorly cut back on offshoring.
This achievement is pretty close to the ultimate miniaturization possible. Three gold atoms lined up are about one nano meter long.
Of course!
Picometers (pm) is next. But the diameter of a silicon atom is around 200 pm, which is 0.2 nanometers. I don’t think they can get smaller than that.
Angstrom is one-tenth of a nanometer.
There’s a couple even smaller I don’t remember.
Visible light waves start at 400 nanometers.
“Not There” technology...
You’ll have to believe in it before it works.
5 nm?
Revenge of the nerds.
Sad part is - if software was written properly it wouldn’t need much more than that.
Will it improve Microsoft Word?
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