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Tiny Transistors: The Quest to Keep Moore’s Law Alive
Earlier this year, IBM announced new technology capable of creating semiconductor chips with 2-nanometer sized transistors. The current industry standard are 7-nanometer sized transistors. A chip based on the 2-nanometer technology the size of a small fingernail could fit 50 billion transistors onto it. The incredibly tiny scale of these transistors is clear when you consider that the diameter of an average human hair is 10,000 nanometers.
Developing the new chip technology was done over four years and an investment of billions of dollars.
Dario Gil, senior vice president and director of IBM research, said that “It’s a remarkable feat of engineering. You will see it first in lower-end devices such as laptops and cellphones, then later in high-end mainframes that power the world’s financial systems. It will appear in self-driving cars, in our appliances and our computers of every possible kind.”
Is this the end, the smallest that transistors can ever be produced?
Mukesh Khare, who is currently vice president of hybrid cloud research at IBM, is optimistic and said that “I don’t think there is a wall that we can’t break through, and I would say there are many more breakthroughs that are coming in the pipeline and we will be sharing more and more as technology matures. I don’t see a wall, I see a lot of opportunities and a lot of things that we can innovate to keep going.”
