However, those chips will now probably be manufactured by GlobalFoundries.
In its announcement today, IBM has turned the chip industrys development path upside down.
In terms of chip development, IBM has moved the field goal out, he said.
Todays best chips, such as microprocessors that power our desktops and laptops, use 22-nanometer and 14-nanometer technology.
The next manufacturing technology to arrive will be 10-nanometer production, and 7-nanometer chips will arrive after that.
IBM research is making sure that smaller transistors and scaling can continue, Khare said.
Moores Law reliably estimated the doubling of transistors on a chip every two years for the last 50 years.
IBM said researchers feared that due to fundamental barriers of technology, 7-nanometer chips would be out of reach.
However, IBM said it used new semiconductor techniques and processes developed by IBM Research.
Those innovations helped IBM cut 50 percent of the chip size compared to the best 10-nanometer technology currently available.
source: www.techworm.net
