IBM has unveiled the world's first 2 nm chip technology

IBM has just unveiled the world's first 2 nanometer chip technology

IBM has just unveiled the world's first 2 nanometer (nm) chip technology, bringing 45 percent higher performance, or 75 percent lower energy use, than today's most advanced 7 nm chips.

Today's semiconductors are dominated by 7nm to 10nm technology, but the latest chips on Apple's iPhones and Macs are manufactured on 5nm design.
Increasing the number of transistors per chip can make them smaller, faster, more reliable, and more efficient.

2 nm chip is smaller than the width of a single strand of human DNA, and allowing to fit up to 50 billion transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail.

IBM claims the potential benefits of these advanced 2 nm chips could nclude quadrupling cell phone battery life, slashing the carbon footprint of data centers, drastically speeding up a laptop's functions, and contributing to faster object detection and reaction time in autonomous vehicles like self-driving cars.

It also plays an important role in areas such as AI, 5G, 6G, cutting-edge computing, distribution, infrastructure, autonomous systems, space exploration, and defense systems.

IBM plans to license its 2nm chip technology to semiconductor manufacturers such as Samsung, aiming for commercialization within the next four years.

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• IBM Unveils World's First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology, Opening a New Frontier for Semiconductors (IBM News Room)
• IBM Unveils World's First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology (IBM News - YouTube)