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Apple Supplier TSMC Readies 3nm Chip Production for Second Half of 2022
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Well, I bet there are people who haven't switched to Apple Silicon yet due to limited RAM sizes they offer. I'm one of them - waiting for larger RAM...
I believe the definition of atom is "the smallest unit of a chemical element that still exhibits the characteristics of that element". I don't know if it's achievable, but once you get to the size of a silicon atom that's the theoretical limit; below that size, you lose the behavior of silicon. So, it won't physically disappear but at atomic sizes IMO the chip will start to behave erratically (i.e., they're already starting to see CPU instability at current feature sizes).When it reaches 0nm technology, does the chip physically disappear?
IBM announced 7nm in 2015. They always announce it earlier. In case you wonder how they did with the 7nm.IBM is actually ahead of them, they are on 2nm.
IBM Unveils World's First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology, Opening a New Frontier for Semiconductors
IBM (NYSE: 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....newsroom.ibm.com
IBM Sues GlobalFoundries Over Breach of Contract - EE Times Asia
IBM is suing GlobalFoundries for breach of contract, harking back to GF ceasing development of a 7nm process in 2018.
www.eetasia.com
Making it in a lab is nothing compare to making them in factories for these guys.
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I doubt it. I think Apple will continue to use A15 into the whole line up for now.
In a way it's not relevant, "they" need to start somewhere, speed is important and 3nm speed/performance is substantially higher than 5 nm.
1 - 70% x 70% = 51% less power for 115% x 115% = 132% of the baseline performance, assuming performance gains for each iteration were the same.
Nobody is seeing CPU instability. And since the size of the transistor has nothing to do with the node size, we aren’t particularly close yet to their being an insurmountable issue with quantum tunneling. Right now, we’ve switched to 3D transistor gate structures to allow an more consistent electric field to enable the transistors to fully turn off (thus preventing static leakage current). There are new gate structures on the roadmap over the next few years that will prevent leakage even as the transistors get smaller.
And once we reach the threshold where the size is such that the transistors cannot be turned off, there are multiple other solutions (for example, compound semiconductors with heterojunctions, different transistor types such as HBTs that rely on vertical distances instead of horizontal, etc.)
IBM is not a foundry. They do cutting edge research yes, but that's a completely different kettle of fish.IBM is actually ahead of them, they are on 2nm.
IBM Unveils World's First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology, Opening a New Frontier for Semiconductors
IBM (NYSE: 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....
TSMC provides foundry services for mass production for the mainstream. What that
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TSMC could have 2nm process ready for mass production by 2024
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC for short, has made a major breakthrough in the development of its 2nm manufacturing process.
www.techspot.com
As usual, IBM is about the theoretical just like their useless big blue machine.IBM is actually ahead of them, they are on 2nm.
IBM Unveils World's First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology, Opening a New Frontier for Semiconductors
IBM (NYSE: 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....
TSMC must be using some sort of alien technology to stay on ahead of everyone. /s
Now if only they can work on scaling up the production facilities to meet the growing global chip shortage.
Now if only they can work on scaling up the production facilities to meet the growing global chip shortage.
in a development fab ... they eon't run anything in productionIBM is actually ahead of them, they are on 2nm.
IBM Unveils World's First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology, Opening a New Frontier for Semiconductors
IBM (NYSE: 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....
One naive (and probably dumb) question: Why was it not possible to go from 10nm directly to 5nm? Why do the iterations have to be that "small"?
Will pick up an iMac 32 inch when this gets implemented. But I will wait 6 months after launch though so I can save on it, because we all know there will be discounts going into 2023. But then, I might wait on the enhanced 3NM process that will launch in late 2023. Then again, might as well just upgrade to 1 NM and get the best bang for my buck. Sigh.
For many years IBM had excellent fabs. They were spun off into GlobalFoundries with AMD’s fabs, but IBM smoked AMD‘s fabs and were quite competitive with Intel’s (and, in fact, better in many ways, other than yield)
They don’t have to.
But it’s hard work to create the machines that you need to make things “a little bit smaller” and to make the EDA software tools that you need to make sure that the products actually work, etc. So we eke out a little bit of improvement each year.
2nm. Pfft.IBM is actually ahead of them, they are on 2nm.
IBM Unveils World's First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology, Opening a New Frontier for Semiconductors
IBM (NYSE: 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....
TSMC laughs at IBM's 2nm chip
TSMC trumps IBM's "2nm" chip tech hyperbole with "1nm" claim
TSMC, the National University of Taiwan and MIT jointly announced that a breakthrough was made in the development of a 1-nanometer semiconductor.
www.verdict.co.uk
TSMC and Partners Develop Key Feature for Sub 1nm Process Technology
TSMC's 1nm process begins to take shape.
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