[ExI] IBM's new 2-nm chips have transistors smaller than a strand of DNA

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri May 7 16:17:28 UTC 2021


Are these chips put in my hand?  It would seem to take a long time.  bill w

On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 5:25 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> By Michael Irving   May 06, 2021
>
> Quotes:
> In a shining example of the inexorable march of technology, IBM has
> unveiled new semiconductor chips with the smallest transistors ever
> made. The new 2-nanometer (nm) tech allows the company to cram a
> staggering 50 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a
> fingernail.
>
> The current industry standard is chips with 7-nm transistors, with
> some high-end consumer devices, such as Apple’s M1 processors,
> beginning to make the move to 5 nm. And experimental chips have shrunk
> as small as 2.5 nm.
>
> <https://newatlas.com/computers/ibm-2-nm-chips-transistors/>
>
> IBM’s new chips pip them all, with transistors now measuring just 2 nm
> wide – for reference, that's narrower than a strand of human DNA.
> That, of course, means the tiny transistors can be squeezed onto a
> chip far more densely than ever before, boosting the device’s
> processing power and energy efficiency in the process. The company
> claims that, when compared to current 7-nm chips, the new 2-nm chips
> can reach 45 percent higher performance or 75 percent lower energy
> use.
>
> It’s likely that we won’t see these 2-nm chips in consumer electronics
> until 2023 at the earliest, so for now go enjoy the benefits of the
> still-impressive 5-nm chips.
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> BillK
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