IBM to Spend 3 Billion on "Next Gen chips"

[Katsu-K1L]

Article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/07/10/why-ibm-just-bet-10-of-its-research-budget-on-3-billion-next-gen-chips/

 

 

Since 1965, chipmakers have operated under Gordon Moore’s observation that they would be able to double the number of transistors in a one-inch diameter area of silicon roughly every two years. Companies like Intel INTC -0.06% and IBM have proven Moore correct largely by cramming ever-smaller transistors more densely onto silicon wafers. We currently can make chips with transistor gates just 22 nanometers wide, with 14 nm chips coming soon. (For reference, an average strand of human hair is about 100,000 nm wide.)

 

[SirReallySam]

GO IBM

[flibberdipper]

IBM is doing some pretty cool things now.

[NInety]

14nm!

[connorpiper]

7nm would be amazing.

[LukaP]

7nm would be amazing.

but very close to impossible, for varius quantum reasons, as well as simple material strenghts.

[Kamina]

Good decision. I expect 2020-2022 will be the end of Silicon for most.

[ACatWithThumbs]

but very close to impossible, for varius quantum reasons, as well as simple material strenghts.

That's only the case with silicon that's why they're going away from silicon and changing their focus on different materials like carbon nano tubes and graphene.

Intel said years ago that by around 2020 they will hit the limit of silicon and that point we either have to move to a different material or will be stuck.

 

[Thorium19]

Carbon nanotubes FTW!!!

But seriously, I can't wait until this new chip technology becomes advanced enough for consumers. It'll trounce silicon by a country mile hopefully, meaning even more powerful systems capable of unbelievable workloads rivalling today's supercomputers in a standard workstation/desktop. I hope.

[Syntaxvgm]

I hope they make them out of macaroni and cheese 

[Redheadsrule13]

PROGRESS! Well, hopefully.

[Dylan522p]

but very close to impossible, for varius quantum reasons, as well as simple material strenghts.

IBM engineers figured out that was the smallest they could go physically and now they are gonna make that node. They are just gonna skip everything in between.

[Admire]

Hehe....its still funny how we used to hate IBM with a passion. They used to be the apple of that time. Buy an IBM computer and you had to buy everything else in IBM too..

 

But now they are really doing great things.

[mr moose]

Hehe....its still funny how we used to hate IBM with a passion. They used to be the apple of that time. Buy an IBM computer and you had to buy everything else in IBM too..

 

But now they are really doing great things.

speak for yourself, I have never hated IBM and their ecosystem has never been that proprietary.  That is why they became the standard.

[Rassilon]

That's only the case with silicon that's why they're going away from silicon and changing their focus on different materials like carbon nano tubes and graphene.

Intel said years ago that by around 2020 they will hit the limit of silicon and that point we either have to move to a different material or will be stuck.

I thought it's a physical limitation based on the electrons.

[Glenwing]

I thought it's a physical limitation based on the electrons.

 

It is, but carbon atoms (for example) are smaller than silicon, so that limit is different between the two.

[Rassilon]

It is, but carbon atoms (for example) are smaller than silicon, so that limit is different between the two.

It's based on the Heisenberg uncertainty principal and it doesn't matter. Not the atom. Or at least it shouldn't

[LukaP]

It's based on the Heisenberg uncertainty principal and it doesn't matter. Not the atom. Or at least it shouldn't

 

its based on it, but i think that with graphene you can do way higher frequencies, as well as it heating up less, so you can stack it. currently too tired to explain the quantum effects that make it impossible to go smaller, but if you PM me in some 12 hours, ill take some time to write it up