The company announced IBM IBM Thursday after new scientific breakthrough that would enable them to develop an electronic chip, is the youngest walakthf yet, they even surpass the most powerful chip currently available four times.
The company said it was able to overcome the technical barriers that were impeding access to such precision manufacturing, whereby electronic chip industry accurately 7 nanometers, equivalent to the size of a single red blood cell.
Referred to as the best commercially available electronic chip currently manufactured with precision 14 nm by Intel, which plans to launch 10 nanometers accuracy chips next year.
And still the innovation of IBM's new laboratories, however, she is now working on ways to facilitate development in the production plants, and thus see it in commercial products.
The breakthrough means that "IBM", according to experts, "Moore's law" — public law which describes the rapid growth of energy computers – will remain valid over the next few years.
The Act Moore – attributed to Gordon Moore, one of the pioneers in the development of silicon chips that power computers should double every couple of years, thanks to new ways of making components smaller with time.
And electronic chips makers currently working on updated manufacturing systems for the production of processors includes components to display 10 nanometers, which means doubling the power of computers. But oppose move from 10 to 7 nanometers accuracy concerns and technical obstacles, including the properties of the Silicon itself making processors.
In an interview with the New York Times said IBM was able to overcome these problems by using channels made of silicon and germanium on key parts of processors, which contributed to the smaller elements of good chips.
I was also able to "IBM" to find a way to use a very narrow light waves from UV to make the transistors are close together without overlap with each other.
In her publication, describes how they work, the company said it had adopted dozens of enhancements to design tools in the manufacturing processes for the manufacture of microchips.
And planning company "IBM" with a number of partners, including Samsung, to spend about $ 3 billion to build a plant in New York State to produce such chips micro-precision manufacturing.
The company has promised that the first electronic chips manufactured strictly 7 nanometers, and that she will include approximately 20 billion transistors, appearing in computers and smartphones in 2017 and 2018