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New IBM and Samsung transistors could be key to super-efficient chips (updated)
IBM and Samsung claim they've made a breakthrough in semiconductor design. On day one of the IEDM [(International Electron Devices Meeting)] conference in San Francisco, the two companies unveiled a new design for stacking transistors vertically on a chip. With current processors and SoCs, transistors lie flat on the surface of the silicon, and then electric current flows from side-to-side. By contrast, Vertical Transport Field Effect Transistors (VTFET) sit perpendicular to one another and current flows vertically.
According to IBM and Samsung, this design has two advantages. First, it will allow them to bypass many performance limitations to extend Moore's Law beyond IBM's current nanosheet technology. More importantly, the design leads to less wasted energy thanks to greater current flow. They estimate VTFET will lead to processors that are either twice as fast or use 85 percent less power than chips designed with FinFET transistors. IBM and Samsung claim the process may one day allow for phones that go a full week on a single charge. They say it could also make certain energy-intensive tasks, including cryptomining, more power-efficient and therefore less impactful on the environment.
IBM blog post. Also at Notebookcheck.
See also: Samsung Begins Sampling 24 Gbps GDDR6 Memory Chips For Next-Gen GPUs
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 14 2021, @04:23PM (9 children)
Did anyone else read the headline and think (momentarily) that IBM and Samsung have decided to get into the elevator market?
Or, perhaps into the happy vertical people transporter market...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 14 2021, @05:29PM
beam me up i'sam'b'sung'm.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 14 2021, @05:38PM (4 children)
No, I'm pretty sure it was just you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 14 2021, @08:36PM (3 children)
See below, at least one other AC saw elevators as I did (I'm the gp).
Could have been a senior moment in my case (recently passed age 65).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 14 2021, @10:43PM (1 child)
I was just being a smartass. :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 15 2021, @12:13AM
Yes, I know, and gave you the Touche for good measure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 15 2021, @11:51AM
I don't think it's a senior moment, because I'm about half your age (and I'm that AC).
Actually, I suspect that people assume I'm in my 60s because I've been around the green site and here for about 2 decades. I was only like 13 when I started blathering on the green site, and I've been at it for another 20 years. (Been coding since I was literally 4 years old, sooo, that's how I ended up in these parts.)
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 14 2021, @06:03PM (1 child)
Omg, think of the jingle when the Samsung elevator gets to your floor and the doors won't open before the whole jingle has played fully.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 14 2021, @06:46PM
Would that song be:
Share and Enjoy, Share and Enjoy,
Journey through life With a plastic boy
Or girl by your side, Let your pal be your guide.
And when it breaks down, Or starts to annoy,
Or grinds when it moves, And gives you no joy,
Cause it's eaten your hat, Or had sex with your cat,
Bled oil on your floor, Or ripped off your door,
And it gets to the point You can't stand anymore,
Bring it to us, We won't give a fig.
We'll tell you,
Go stick your head in a pig!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 14 2021, @08:04PM