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IBM publishes tech for chips it confirms pack performance leap, apply much less power
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IBM unveiled semiconductor technology Thursday that it says could deliver computer chips with 50 percent better performance while dramatically lowering power consumption.
Key facts
- IBM's new chip is projected to offer "up to 50 percent more performance, or 70 percent greater energy efficiency than IBM's 2-nanometer node chips," the company said
- IBM's apparent breakthrough packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a chip that size -- nearly twice the density of the 2-nanometer chip
- TSMC is currently developing "1.4-nanometer" technology targeted for mass production around 2028
- The technology also delivers a 40 percent improvement in SRAM memory chips -- "something that we haven't seen in decades," said Huiming Bu, IBM's vice president of semiconductors
Summary
The technology developed by IBM isn't ready for industrial use yet, but the Armonk, New York-based company said it "sees a path to production in as early as the next five years. The breakthrough could mean a major leap forward as the industry races to cram more computing power into smaller devices even as worries grow over the tech industry's huge energy needs. Taiwan's TSMC, the world's leading chip manufacturer, has recently begun mass-producing "2-nanometer" chips, the current cutting edge of the industry. IBM's new "0.7-nanometer" technology would represent a dramatic step beyond that.