SK Holdings Company Ltd: IBM enters the field of 15 nanometer chips
This Industry news is provided from the SK Holdings Company Ltd
Sept. 22, IBM continued to minify its microprocessors by the means of new technologies. The current semiconductor technology can only reduce the processor to 65-45 nanometer, and the next year of Intel’s goal is 32 nanometer. IBM went further and announced it plans to produce 22 nm processors.
According to foreign media reports, the two companies have a similar line of business. Intel plans to continue to reduce chip size from 45 to 32 nano-nano, followed by 22 nanometer, 15 nanometer or 14 and then eventually to 10 nm. But the only official announced in 2009 to achieve the goal of 32-nanometer, did not disclose the time to achieve other goals, it will not disclose how to achieve these goals. In fact, the level of atoms to create a chip assembly than a bicycle is much more complicated.
IBM recently said they will work with Mentor Graphics using the next generation of computing software etching technology to create and produce 22 nanometer semiconductor, semiconductor that is expected to be at the end of 2011 or early 2012. IBM has produced a number of products for internal testing and evaluation of the samples.
As the flow constraints, the existing etching technology can not support the 22 nanometer chips, in other words, can not make 22 nanometer-sized chip. IBM’s semiconductor design and technology department • Kevin Warren (Kevin Warren) said, IBM will use 32-nanometer chip production equipment to produce 22 nanometer chips.
This will not improve in the lens and the NA, the industry has long recognized the impact of this factor has reached the limit theory. Therefore, the only solution is to use the existing tools for etching, after a large number of parallel computing to reduce the size of the product. Calculated to reduce the proportion of the whole process will be continuous simulation and optimization. And the same Intel, IBM also designed to integrate a higher degree of metal gate devices, which will be used 32 nanometer and 22 nanometer processors.
Moore’s Law will remain in force for the end-user, they will continue to see that in the past with the same density scaling, but IBM will attempt to integrate more information on the chip, which makes chips will have the same memory as faster Performance. Warren said that IBM will depend on reducing the size of silicon to keep costs down. This will not only benefit the species IBM 595 servers, mobile phones such as the small device is also useful, cost control is an eternal topic.
IBM is confident to create 15 nanometer chip with this technology, whether the size can be reduced to 10 nanometer is worth to wait.
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