Posted on 05/10/2021 7:32:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
IBM today unveiled a breakthrough in semiconductor design and process with the development of the world's first chip announced with 2 nanometer (nm) nanosheet technology. Semiconductors play critical roles in everything from computing, to appliances, to communication devices, transportation systems, and critical infrastructure.
Demand for increased chip performance and energy efficiency continues to rise, especially in the era of hybrid cloud, AI, and the Internet of Things. IBM's new 2 nm chip technology helps advance the state-of-the-art in the semiconductor industry, addressing this growing demand. It is projected to achieve 45 percent higher performance, or 75 percent lower energy use, than today's most advanced 7 nm node chips.
The potential benefits of these advanced 2 nm chips could include:
- Quadrupling cell phone battery life, only requiring users to charge their devices every four days.
- Slashing the carbon footprint of data centers, which account for one percent of global energy use. Changing all of their servers to 2 nm-based processors could potentially reduce that number significantly.
- Drastically speeding up a laptop's functions, ranging from quicker processing in applications, to assisting in language translation more easily, to faster internet access.
- Contributing to faster object detection and reaction time in autonomous vehicles like self-driving cars.
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Which we will either be unable or unwilling to manufacture domestically. I would assume Master Xi’s minions already have the necessary information to produce these chips.
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Decades ago, I read an article about IBM making money of their patents. One of their patents was for the screen cursor.
Maybe they can use that to help the microasians and the nanoasians.
Oh. IBM announcing fewer computers would be needed - AGAIN!
Love, Thomas Watson
2 nanometers is 4 atoms of silicon wide. At what point do they call it a quantum computer?
2 nanometers is 4 atoms of silicon wide.
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That is incredible.
That’s a big deal. A huge accomplishment
Nope. The designers will simply make the batteries smaller so the phone can be thinner.
I have an ebook tablet that I use quite a bit. It wouldn't bother me a bit if the stupid thing were a half-inch thicker if I could get more than a weeks worth of reading out of it. Also, it would feel more like a book.
Microsoft will have to update their blue screen of death to include a cosmic ray error.
Maybe I should buy some IBM stocks. they have been real laggatds lately. Thing is, they also have a history of screwing things up as they did with Bill Gates and Microsoft.
Ha! Bloatware will see to it that that doesn't happen.
Right, at scales that small, there is risk of your laptop becoming quantumly entangled with Schrodinger’s cat. Just imagine the spellcheck hijinks that could cause!
Very significant.
Also, one could make a terrific diffraction grating with that technology.
It is closer to four silicon unit cells, ( the repeat distance in Si crystals) which is a little different, but still mind boggling.
All semiconductor based computers are based on applied quantum mechanics. Transistors are based on bandgaps, Fermi level, all that. So in that sense the answer is, always.
But really, “Quantum computer” is a term of art, a machine computing using states which are superpositions (qubits). In that sense, they cannot shrink a conventional computer and make a quantum computer, so the answer is never.
Good question that makes you think!
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