By Anhata Rooprai and Stephen Nellis <\/p>\n
June 25 (Reuters) – IBM on Thursday unveiled what it said was the world’s first technology capable of producing chips smaller than \u200cone nanometer, as tech companies race to build semiconductors that can handle increasingly \u200cdemanding AI workloads. <\/p>\n
Shares of the Armonk, New York-based company rose over 6% in premarket trading, though later pared gains \u200bto about 1.9%. They have fallen about 11% so far this year. <\/p>\n
The announcement comes at a time when chipmakers are searching for ways to maintain the decades-long trend of cramming more computing power into smaller spaces, a phenomenon known as Moore’s Law. <\/p>\n
The new chip technology, which bolsters IBM’s \u200cposition to compete with contract \u2060chipmakers TSMC and Intel, has a transistor architecture of 0.7 nanometers, or 7 angstroms. <\/p>\n
Last week, Intel said the new generation of its 18A manufacturing \u2060process, which makes 1.8 nanometer chips, moved into risk production, the testing phase before commercial manufacturing. <\/p>\n
IBM said the 0.7-nanometer chip packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized surface, about twice the \u200bdensity of \u200bits 2-nanometer chip unveiled in 2021, delivering up \u200bto 50% higher performance or 70% \u200cgreater energy efficiency. <\/p>\n
To get there, IBM developed a new transistor design called “nanostack.” Instead of laying transistors flat, the design stacks them on top of each other in three dimensions, fitting more into the same volume of space. <\/p>\n
“With our new nanostack architecture, we’re not just making smaller transistors, we’re reinventing how chips are built to deliver dramatically more power and energy efficiency,” director \u200cof IBM Research Jay Gambetta said. <\/p>\n
In addition to shrinking \u200bcomputing circuits, IBM said the new nanostack technology will \u200bshrink a type of memory circuit called \u200bSRAM by 40%, a far better gain than IBM’s previous generation \u200cof new chip technology. That category of \u200bmemory is heavily used \u200bin Nvidia’s new Groq chips and chips from Cerebras Systems, both of which currently rely on TSMC. <\/p>\n
IBM says production could begin within five years. The company has previously \u200blicensed chip technologies to Samsung \u200cand Japan’s Rapidus. It has not announced a manufacturing partner for this technology. <\/p>\n
(Reporting \u200bby Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru and Stephen Nellis in San Francisco. Editing by \u200bVarun H K, Devika Syamnath and Mark Potter) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Anhata Rooprai and Stephen Nellis June 25 (Reuters) – IBM on Thursday unveiled what it said was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,56268,220713,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chip","tag-nanometer","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}