As IT companies compete to develop semiconductors capable of handling increasingly demanding AI workloads, BM on Thursday presented what it claimed to be the world’s first technology capable of creating chips smaller than one nanometer. The Armonk, New York-based company’s shares increased by more than 6% during premarket trading, but the gains eventually decreased to roughly 1.9%. So far this year, they have dropped by almost 11%.
The announcement coincides with chipmakers looking for ways to sustain Moore’s Law, the decades-long trend of packing greater processing power into fewer places. With a transistor architecture of 0.7 nanometers, or 7 angstroms, the new chip technology strengthens IBM’s position to compete with contract chipmakers TSMC and Intel.
Jay Gambetta, head of IBM Research, stated, “With our new nanostack architecture, we’re not just making smaller transistors, we’re reinventing how chips are built to deliver dramatically more power and energy efficiency.” IBM claimed that the new nanostack technology will reduce a form of memory circuit known as SRAM by 40% in addition to shrinking computational circuits. This is a significant improvement over IBM’s prior generation of new chip technology. Both Cerebras Systems processors and Nvidia’s upcoming Groq chips, which presently rely on TSMC, make extensive use of that type of memory.
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