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IBM Describes 0.7-Nanometer Chip Design Projected for Possible Production in Five Years
@CBSNews reported that IBM presented new semiconductor designs on Thursday. The technology targets chips with up to 50 percent better performance and 70 percent greater energy efficiency than its prior 2-nanometer generation. Production could begin within five years.
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IBM unveiled semiconductor technology on Thursday that it projects will deliver computer chips with up to 50 percent better performance and dramatically lower power consumption. The Armonk, New York-based company said it sees a path to production in as early as the next five years. The designs use a 0.7-nanometer scale and a three-dimensional architecture called nanostack.
IBM stated the chips would pack nearly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized surface, nearly twice the density of current 2-nanometer chips. The company also projected up to 50 percent more performance or 70 percent greater energy efficiency than its own 2-nanometer node chips, along with a 40 percent improvement in SRAM memory chips.
Taiwan's TSMC has recently begun mass-producing 2-nanometer chips.
IBM's technology would advance beyond that scale. TSMC is separately developing 1.4-nanometer technology targeted for mass production around 2028. "IBM's latest chip breakthrough marks a landmark moment in computing, pushing technology beyond the nanometer era to the scale of atoms," said Jay Gambetta, director of IBM Research.
IBM does not manufacture chips itself and is working with Japan's Rapidus to scale 2-nanometer production.
