{"id":216996,"date":"2017-06-26T10:44:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T08:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=216996"},"modified":"2017-06-26T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T08:46:55","slug":"ibm-develops-manufacturing-process-for-5nm-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/216996-ibm-develops-manufacturing-process-for-5nm-processors.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM develops manufacturing process for 5nm processors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has <a href=\"https:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/52531.wss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>developed<\/strong><\/a> a 5nm semiconductor manufacturing process which uses a new transistor design.<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturing process uses a gate-all-round transistor design instead of the FinFET structure implemented in modern chips.<\/p>\n<p>The transistor design consists of a trio of silicon nanosheets wrapped around a gate material, and promises better scaling at lower process nodes than FinFET transistors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Compared to the leading edge 10nm technology available in the market, a nanosheet-based 5nm technology can deliver 40% performance enhancement at fixed power, or 75% power savings at matched performance,&#8221; said IBM.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the power savings conferred by its 5nm chip design could allow smartphones to last up to three-times longer on a single charge.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JPLv04O1VjE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/216358-ibm-supercomputers-to-improve-weather-forecasts.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">IBM supercomputers to improve weather forecasts<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has developed a 5nm semiconductor manufacturing process which uses a new transistor design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":90047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[44102,44106,44108,44104],"class_list":["post-216996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-5nm","tag-manufacturing-process","tag-mocroprocessors","tag-silicon-nanosheet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217010,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216996\/revisions\/217010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}