IBM has just managed to build a computer chip which is only 7 nanometers wide. At the same point of time this chip offers 4 times the performance of any other chip.
This powerful superchip can pack a lot of transistors into a small space which allows data to travel faster between them according to a report by Wired.
This certainly is another massive advancements as far as semiconductor development is concerned which is improving quite substantially ever year anyway in order to make way for more powerful systems and computers.
This shows that IBM really is a good enough competitor for Intel, the chip-making giant even though many have argued that Intel has also created a chip which is just as powerful which is 7 nanometers wide as well. It does have quite a few engineers and scientists working on this technology as per its public roadmap.
This announcement from IBM shows that Intel will have to improve its game dramatically if it doesn’t want to lose out on its market share, especially as transistors for chips are currently doubling once every eighteen months.
IBM has been trying to increase its hold of the chip-making industry for quite some time now. It all began when it paid Globalfoundries Inc. $ 1.5 billion for handling a few chip plants that made it appear like IBM was leaving the industry. Now though it appears as if IBM is conducting lots of research as far as the chip-making industry is concerned.
It may be quite a few years before this chip does enter the retail market where people are still getting to grips with 14 & 10 nanometer chips. But at the same point of time, it will certainly put more pressure on Intel to develop a better chip.
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only two problems = no one on earth can build it and it costs one trillion dollars each.