The IT corporation IBM has succeeded in producing a 2-nanometer chip. Until now, it was considered impossible or simply too expensive to produce such a small chip.<\/p>\n
According to IBM, this chip will house up to 50 billion transistors on an area the size of a fingernail.<\/p>\n
The technology company cites an expected 45 percent increase in performance for the new chip compared to a 7-nanometer chip. In addition, energy consumption is expected to be 75 percent lower.<\/p>\n
In concrete terms, this means a possible quadrupling of the battery life of cell phones, for example. Advantages are also expected in the use of these chips in servers. Here, for example, IBM expects a significant reduction in the carbon footprint of data centers if all servers are converted to processors based on 2-nanometer chips.<\/p>\n
Likewise, the work of a laptop can be greatly accelerated. This goes from faster application execution to easier language translation support to faster Internet access.<\/p>\n
IBM Research Director Dar\u00edo Gil said, “The IBM innovation reflected in this new 2nm chip is critical to the entire semiconductor and IT industry.”<\/p>\n
IBM mentioned in its press release that demand for higher chip performance continues to rise – especially in the era of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and the so-called hybrid cloud.<\/p>\n
The company believes its 2-nanometer chip technology is advancing the state of the art in the semiconductor industry and satisfying the growing demand.<\/p>\n