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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Faster Pr0n, meaning.... what? They screw faster? All the "Oooh!" and "Aaah!" are in a higher register?
I'm not sure making it faster is a good idea.... just sayin'. :-)
I hope the Chicoms don’t read this.
It will look like a Benny Hill skit!.......................
lol
Still won’t run Windoze.
the human interface is still the bottleneck,, for now.
Heh, as if humanity is going to be allowed to survive.
In silicon, inter-atom spacing is .235 no, so more like 10 atoms. Still, we are very rapidly approaching physical limits.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16639/tsmc-update-2nm-in-development-3nm-4nm-on-track-for-2022
Good stuff ...
https://semiengineering.com/breaking-the-2nm-barrier/
Related - connecting the little transistors is a significant part of the advance.
AMD is actually maker faster chips. Not just announcing them.
Yup, they just can’t quite meet demand.
What it is becoming is 2002 femtometer technology
1002 femtometer
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