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IBM's breakthrough: World's first 5nm chip with new materials and ....
zdnet.com ^ | June 5, 2017 | By Liam Tung |

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.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hitech
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1 posted on 06/06/2017 5:30:17 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Does this mean a new & improved version of “Pong” is coming soon?


2 posted on 06/06/2017 5:35:04 PM PDT by newfreep ("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
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To: SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; TigersEye; Oynx; Marine_Uncle; BenLurkin; ...

A bit more om the 5 nm chip .


3 posted on 06/06/2017 5:37:33 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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4 posted on 06/06/2017 5:40:34 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: newfreep

That’s got a better chance than a user friendly and intuitive lotus notes.


5 posted on 06/06/2017 5:40:46 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

What comes after nanometer on the scale of small? That’s where we’re headed.


6 posted on 06/06/2017 5:41:34 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
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To: newfreep

I believe a new release of “Donkey Kong” is also in the works ... ;-)


7 posted on 06/06/2017 5:42:54 PM PDT by Ken522
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Not sure what I am looking at!


8 posted on 06/06/2017 5:43:12 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: All

Click The Pic

9 posted on 06/06/2017 5:44:25 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Ken522

Wayne Gretzky’s 3-D Hockey.


10 posted on 06/06/2017 5:44:58 PM PDT by henkster (Orwell, Rand and Huxley would not be proud of our society, but they'd have no trouble recognizing it)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

What would be a breakthrough at IBM is them finding some way to majorly cut back on offshoring.


11 posted on 06/06/2017 5:45:31 PM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

This achievement is pretty close to the ultimate miniaturization possible. Three gold atoms lined up are about one nano meter long.


12 posted on 06/06/2017 5:46:43 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The one that started it all in 1971. The first commerically available microprocessor. The 4-bit Intel 4004. Running at a blistering clock speed of 740khz.

Invented by 3 evil white guys.


13 posted on 06/06/2017 5:47:05 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: newfreep

Of course!


14 posted on 06/06/2017 5:48:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

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.


15 posted on 06/06/2017 5:48:04 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Angstrom is one-tenth of a nanometer.

There’s a couple even smaller I don’t remember.

Visible light waves start at 400 nanometers.


16 posted on 06/06/2017 5:48:46 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

“Not There” technology...

You’ll have to believe in it before it works.


17 posted on 06/06/2017 6:00:04 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

5 nm?

Revenge of the nerds.


18 posted on 06/06/2017 6:00:39 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Signalman

Sad part is - if software was written properly it wouldn’t need much more than that.


19 posted on 06/06/2017 6:06:04 PM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Will it improve Microsoft Word?


20 posted on 06/06/2017 6:17:01 PM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
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