IBM has announced the development of the world’s first 2 nanometer chipmaking technology.
This new 2 nm chip technology helps advance the state-of-the-art in the semiconductor industry, addressing this growing demand.
IBM further added that the potential benefits of these advanced 2 nm chips could include quadrupling cell phone battery life, reducing the carbon footprint of data centres, speeding up laptop’s functions and contributing to faster object detection.
Demand for increased chip performance and energy efficiency continues to rise, especially with an increase in adoption of hybrid cloud, AI, and the Internet of Things IoT.
“The IBM innovation reflected in this new 2 nm chip is essential to the entire semiconductor and IT industry. It is the product of IBM’s approach of taking on hard tech challenges and a demonstration of how breakthroughs can result from sustained investments and a collaborative R&D ecosystem approach”, said Darío Gil, SVP and Director of IBM Research.
IBM’s new 2 nm chip technology helps advance the state-of-the-art in the semiconductor industry, and is projected to achieve 45 per cent higher performance, or 75 per cent lower energy use, than today’s most advanced 7 nm node chips. More transistors on a chip also means processor designers have more options to infuse core-level innovations to improve capabilities for leading edge workloads like AI and cloud computing, as well as new pathways for hardware-enforced security and encryption.
Making the switches very tiny makes them faster and more power efficient, but it also creates problems with electrons leaking when the switches are supposed to be off. Dario Gill, SVP and director, IBM Research told Reuters in an interview that scientists were able to drape sheets of insulating material just a few nanometres of thick to stop leaks.
He further added that, in the end, there’s transistors, and everything else (in computing) relies on whether that transistor gets better or not. And it’s not a guarantee that there will be a transistor advance generation to generation anymore. So it’s a big deal every time we get a chance to say there will be another.
IBM’s first commercialised offering including IBM Research 7 nm advancements will debut later this year in IBM POWER10-based IBM Power Systems.