FUTURE TECH
IBM’s 2 Nanometer Chip Technology is the World’s First
This innovative milestone may open up new frontiers for semiconductors in performance and energy efficiency
We are much more used to hearing about new breakthroughs in the computational capacity of semiconductor technology from chip giants like Intel. It was last year that the news about the company’s most powerful “neuromorphic” chips came to light — using the human brain as a model of the novel chips, they boasted of the computational capacity of 100 million neurons. Another major development last year was Nvidia’s next-gen AI chip.
Talking about current chip industry standards, 7-nm transistors are the most commonly used, with some high-end consumer devices such as Apple’s M1 processors, transitioning to 5 nm. Other experimental chips are working on ones with 2.5 nm. But the recent innovation by IBM may provide a major breakthrough in chip performance and energy efficiency. Good to know that the issue of global chip shortages has not hampered the spirit of innovation.
Apart from the supply constraints, increased chip performance and energy efficiency continue to rise in the era of hybrid cloud, AI, and the Internet of Things. And IBM’s new state-of-the-art 2 nm chip technology could…
