IBM has unveiled the world's first 2 nanometer (nm) semiconductor technology. The company calls it a breakthrough in semiconductor design, citing power efficiency and improved performance as two key benefits.
New IBM AI chip: Faster than Nvidia GPUs and the rest
IBM announced its latest semiconductor technology in a press release, touting benefits in computing speed and potential savings in battery life. As PCMag noted, these chips are still a few years away, but IBM has managed to successfully prototype them at its Albany, New York, lab.
IBM predicts a 45 percent performance boost and a 75 percent reduction in power consumption, making these chips more efficient than the most advanced 7nm microprocessors currently available. Other potential benefits of the new 2nm chips include longer battery life in mobile phones, faster processing speeds and a reduction in the carbon footprint created by large data centers.
With these new semiconductors, IBM says, we could one day see cell phones that offer four days of battery life per charge, a huge leap from the one-day charges we have today. IBM says the technology could also lead to faster object detection, which could speed up reaction times in autonomous vehicles.
