IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
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IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
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Re: IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
#2How does IBM commercialize this? Do they license this out to fabs?
Re: IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
#3IBM regularly announces silicon breakthroughs like this but I'm not aware of those ever becoming products. Is IBM mainly in the business of licensing their technology to big silicon manufacturers with stuff like this? Is it just marketing for their consulting business?
Re: IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
#4IBM regularly announces silicon breakthroughs like this but I'm not aware of those ever becoming products. Is IBM mainly in the business of licensing their technology to big silicon manufacturers with stuff like this? Is it just marketing for their consulting business?
My understanding is they are largely an IP business. That said this release mentioned an ASML machine on prem, so?
Re: IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
#5How does IBM commercialize this? Do they license this out to fabs?
Sit on a patent and try to scrape earnings from others, maybe? That is, license or litigate.
Re: IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
#6How does IBM commercialize this? Do they license this out to fabs?
They licensed 2 nm to Rapidus so yes.
Re: IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
#7A little bit of a nitpick, but wouldn't that be a picometer instead of angstrom node? Like, isn't a "pico-" the next magnitude smaller than "nano-", or am i wrong?
Otherwise, that chip tech sounds really awesome - at least for the future!
Re: IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
#8IBM regularly announces silicon breakthroughs like this but I'm not aware of those ever becoming products. Is IBM mainly in the business of licensing their technology to big silicon manufacturers with stuff like this? Is it just marketing for their consulting business?
I believe that IBM makes the chips for their Z Series mainframes. I mean, that's low volume production, but they need small feature size.
Re: IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
#9IBM regularly announces silicon breakthroughs like this but I'm not aware of those ever becoming products. Is IBM mainly in the business of licensing their technology to big silicon manufacturers with stuff like this? Is it just marketing for their consulting business?
IBM's contributions to computing hardware and software are incalculable.
So many breakthroughs in hard drives, chips, transistor density, and other aspects of computing have come out of their labs.
Great to see them continuing to innovate.
But, yeah, usually they partner and license. Over the years, they've spun off more and more of their hardware businesses.
Re: IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
#10> logic technology can extend for the first time below the 1 nm node, advancing the era of angstrom-level scaling, where dimensions approach the size of individual atoms. While transistor nodes now refer to a generation of manufacturing technology versus an exact physical dimension, IBM’s 0.7 nm technology—also referred to as 7 angstroms—demonstrates how continued scaling remains possible.
Continuing the well established trend of making bold claims about physical dimensions that have nothing to do with any of the structures in the chip, and the name scales better than the tech.
What they actually deliver is a "nanostack architecture" built with ~5nm features that according to them is comparable to a hypothetical real sub-1nm chip.
It's an impressive achievement nonetheless but it looks like the industry has a few too many marketers.