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IBM Unveils World's First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology
YouTube ^ | May 6, 2021 | IBM News

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:

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science
KEYWORDS: amd; apple; applesilicon; arm; business; ibm; intel; internetofthings; riscv; science; technology; tsmc; westerndesigncenter
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1 posted on 05/10/2021 7:32:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ibm+2nm


2 posted on 05/10/2021 7:34:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Drastically speeding up a laptop's functions, ranging from quicker processing in applications, to assisting in language translation more easily, to faster internet access.

Faster Pr0n!........................

3 posted on 05/10/2021 7:40:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


4 posted on 05/10/2021 7:41:27 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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5 posted on 05/10/2021 7:51:07 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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But.........






Can it run Crysis?
6 posted on 05/10/2021 7:53:27 AM PDT by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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7 posted on 05/10/2021 8:04:28 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: SunkenCiv

Decades ago, I read an article about IBM making money of their patents. One of their patents was for the screen cursor.


8 posted on 05/10/2021 8:24:02 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: SunkenCiv

Maybe they can use that to help the microasians and the nanoasians.


9 posted on 05/10/2021 8:27:29 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: SunkenCiv
Changing all of their servers to 2 nm-based processors could potentially reduce that number significantly.

Oh. IBM announcing fewer computers would be needed - AGAIN!

Love, Thomas Watson

10 posted on 05/10/2021 8:31:25 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Blessed Mother of Bitch!)
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To: SunkenCiv

2 nanometers is 4 atoms of silicon wide. At what point do they call it a quantum computer?


11 posted on 05/10/2021 8:39:56 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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2 nanometers is 4 atoms of silicon wide.
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That is incredible.


12 posted on 05/10/2021 8:43:44 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s a big deal. A huge accomplishment


13 posted on 05/10/2021 8:50:22 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SunkenCiv
Quadrupling cell phone battery life, only requiring users to charge their devices every four days.

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.

14 posted on 05/10/2021 8:51:33 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Yardstick

Microsoft will have to update their blue screen of death to include a cosmic ray error.


15 posted on 05/10/2021 8:56:34 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


16 posted on 05/10/2021 9:05:02 AM PDT by aquila48 (o not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: SunkenCiv
Drastically speeding up a laptop's functions, ranging from quicker...

Ha! Bloatware will see to it that that doesn't happen.

17 posted on 05/10/2021 9:13:27 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Reeses

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!


18 posted on 05/10/2021 9:20:22 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: SunkenCiv

Very significant.

Also, one could make a terrific diffraction grating with that technology.


19 posted on 05/10/2021 9:21:53 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Reeses

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!


20 posted on 05/10/2021 9:33:19 AM PDT by takebackaustin
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