The technology could be as much as 45% faster than the mainstream 7-nanometre chips in many of today's laptops and phones and up to 75% more power efficient, the company said. For decades, each generation of computer chips got faster and more power-efficient because their most basic building blocks, called transistors, got smaller. Also Read | Intel graphics chip will tap new version of TSMC 7-nanometer processIBM introduced what it says is the world's first 2-nanometre chipmaking technology. The technology IBM showed Thursday is the most basic building block of a chip: a transistor, which acts like an electrical on-off switch to form the 1s and 0s of binary digits at that foundation of all modern computing. "In the end, there's transistors, and everything else (in computing) relies on whether that transistor gets better or not.

Source: The Hindu May 06, 2021 12:43 UTC