IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
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#2(When measured in terms of IBM hype quotients.)
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#3Wow, 7 nanometer is incredible! I wonder how small they can get silicon / silicon-germanium based chips before we have to resort to other techniques such as light processors (since light can be closer and even cross each other without issue). 10 nanometers that they're introducing next year is also incredible, at least to me since I'm not a hardware engineer and can't imagine how difficult manufacturing these are.
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#4No mention of Intel anywhere in the article and how far along they are. Also 7nm blows my mind. I mean current CPUs already blow my mind with how tiny the transistors are getting.
And specially stabilized buildings? "NOBODY MOVE! WE'RE ETCHING!"
Re: IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
#5Wow, 7 nanometer is incredible! I wonder how small they can get silicon / silicon-germanium based chips before we have to resort to other techniques such as light processors (since light can be closer and even cross each other without issue). 10 nanometers that they're introducing next year is also incredible, at least to me since I'm not a hardware engineer and can't imagine how difficult manufacturing these are.
They use germanium.
Re: IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
#6No mention of Intel anywhere in the article and how far along they are. Also 7nm blows my mind. I mean current CPUs already blow my mind with how tiny the transistors are getting. And specially stabilized buildings? "NOBODY MOVE! WE'RE ETCHING!"
Actually Intel was mentioned and its struggle with the 14 mm node.
Re: IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
#7No mention of Intel anywhere in the article and how far along they are. Also 7nm blows my mind. I mean current CPUs already blow my mind with how tiny the transistors are getting. And specially stabilized buildings? "NOBODY MOVE! WE'RE ETCHING!"
Given the way we're going, I wonder how soon it will be cheaper and easier to build a cpu plant in orbit...
Re: IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
#8Great talk that describes how modern (as of 2011) computer chips are manufactured: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
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#9Return of the PowerPC Mac?
Re: IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
#10Very interesting. Good to see that the article points out that going from working transistors to commercial viable industrial process is also a big challenge. There are a lot of technologies and industry players that need to solve big problems before the node can start deliver. But that is what ITRS is for.
Also, interesting to see how things like e-beam litography is pushed once again at least a node into the future. We (as in they) are still able to tune and optimize on the same infrastructure.