The Smallest Chip Ever - IBM Two-Nanometer Chip

It is hard to understand how much power a 50B transistor IC can have!

Still remember back in late 80s, my professor said that 40nm and 80MHz were the absolute limit for silicon based semiconductors on a lecture on Friday.

I wish I had his contact info to ask him what he thinks of this :)

IBM’s 2-nanometer (nm) chip technology puts 50 billion transistors, each the size of roughly five atoms, on a space no bigger than your fingernail. The landmark technology—the smallest, most powerful microchip ever developed—could quadruple the life of cell-phone batteries and slash the carbon footprint of data centers, among other things. Now the manufacturing competition is on. Samsung and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have announced plans to produce the chip by 2025, and in August, the U.S. and Japan unveiled a plan to build a joint research center focused on 2-nm tech.

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China's 7nm chip surprise: Not as worrying as it looks • The Register

Duplicating the TSMC N7 process must have been hard, expensive and high priority. But it leads nowhere. What we see when we pop that chip open is not a scarfy future, but a tiny white elephant bathed in deep ultraviolet.

China is learning to build the world's finest propeller engine, just as its competitors enter the jet age. Admire the effort, but don't cash in your chips just yet.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/column_7nm_chips_china/

#computers #VLSI #china

"Thus, our university has created a complete #VLSI chain as free software. It is called Coriolis and allows the design of an #ASIC from its #VHDL description to the drawing of the masks (see https://coriolis.lip6.fr)" https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2022-01/msg00141.html

"Unified Patents filed an amicus brief with #scotus in support of the petition for certiorari in #Intel Corp. v. #VLSI Tech. LLC, challenging the USPTO's reliance on their own NHK-Fintiv ruling, as well as the reviewability of such a de facto rule on appeal." https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2022/1/18/unified-files-amicus-brief-with-supreme-court-on-the-issue-of-fintiv

Fintiv challenged in SCOTUS Amicus by Unified — Unified Patents

On January 14, 2022, Unified Patents filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the petition for certiorari in Intel Corp. v. VLSI Tech. LLC, challenging the USPTO's reliance on their own NHK-Fintiv ruling, as well as the...

And meanwhile, #ptab is taking on the so-called '$2.18 Billion #VLSI #patent ' -- one of those #patents that #uspto should never have granted in the first place (and which infiltrated courts in Texas might still say "OK" to)

"Things are moving forward again in #VLSI v. Intel. Judge #AlanAlbright of the United States District Court for the Western District of #Texas has denied the first of several post-trial motions with which Intel is challenging the record $2.175B verdict." http://www.fosspatents.com/2021/08/vlsi-inches-closer-to-22b-final.html

VLSI inches closer to $2.2B final judgment as Judge Albright denies Intel's motion for new trial

Things are moving forward again in VLSI v. Intel . Judge Alan Albright of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas...