MIT & TSMC 1nm Chip

TSMC And MIT Research Team Claims Amazing 1nm Chip Fab Breakthrough | HotHardware

IBM announced 2nm chips, and now TSMC says they have potentially 1nm chips that they can stack. Exactly where all this is going is anybody's guess, but they've hit the Shottky barrier, meaning their chip can't get any more efficient without cooling, or using something altogether different from electronics, like optics.

This is basically giant corporations having a pissing contest about whose dick is bigger, or chip is smaller, but its already quite possible someone could easily come out with a super cheap alternative to silicon that is at least a thousand times faster and more efficient. A single fabrication plant can cost 20 billion dollars to build, while these guys would not hesitate to spend 100 billion, and having a pissing contest now reflects the tensions between China and the US, and the stock market.

 

Those not actual 2nm. They are just labeling differences. The size of the transistor hasn't gotten smaller for a few years

 

They're pushing fin-fet technology to its limits, simply because it is at its limits. Its all thermodynamics when you get down to it, and by using tall fins for wires they can keep hot electrons flowing into the transistors, and by reducing the need for higher voltages they can make the wires even shorter, but super tall even. Weird wiring to say the least, but they are pushing electrons around like so much water inside molecular scale pipes. What they require are new transistors, and its possible to even create single atom transistors, but making the crap smaller is no longer the only way to make it up to a million times faster and more efficient.

Spintronics and optics are about to make electronics outdated for countless applications.