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 ...
That is mind blowing. Hardly anything improves at that rate. The only other thing that comes to mind is fiber optic communications development in the 90s. The optical physics researchers were coming up with incredible breakthroughs in every component required to build an optical communication system.
If it wasn’t for that damn Einstein computers would be even faster. LOL
The stock scam that is ibm I believe wants to be aquired by Apple. Then it can be cool again to get Big beefy mainframe. System z seems pretty cool. Watson should figure a way to make a profit with out all the service licensing agreement skullduggery. When was their last profitable quarter?
Boy that really bytes!
[[What comes after nanometer on the scale of small?]]
NoNoMeter
that was a bit bad
touche!
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