IBM Research Alliance Has Figured Out How To Make 5nm Chips

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Big Blue's research alliance to shrink computer chips develops technology to boost performance by 40 percent over today's processors.

IBM, GlobalFoundries, and Samsung said Monday that they have found a way to make thinner transistors, which should enable them to pack 30 billion switches onto a microprocessor chip the size of a fingernail. The tech industry has been fueled for decades by the ability of chipmakers to shoehorn ever smaller, faster transistors into the chips that power laptops, servers, and mobile devices. But industry watchers have worried lately that technology was pushing the limits of Moore's Law -- a prediction made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that computing power would double every two years as chips got more densely packed.

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Too bad the article does not really explains how this technology works. The only substantial info is: "To shrink the chips further, IBM and Samsung had to come up with a way to improve contact between the gate and channel even more. The end result is nanosheets, which provides a way for the gate to completely surround the channel, Bu said. "

Would love to see how this compares to the finfet procedure.

ASML will start shipping out EUV machines to customers in 2018, a technology with loads of potential which should bring significant improvements compared to current chips.

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Less reliable website, more actual information, slides and stuff showing the layout.

Thanks @anon85933304 in the lounge for the link.

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