Shrinking down to the atomic scale
The global machine that builds them
Powering the next generation of tech
Beyond the silicon wall
Which physics phenomenon causes electrons to spontaneously slip through ultra-thin barriers in tiny chips?
Why is the gate-all-around (GAA) transistor design superior to older FinFET designs?
play_review Stack microscopic transistors to learn how 2-nanometer microchips power future tech.
play_review The gate-all-around design wraps the transistor's control gate around all sides of the channel to prevent electrical leaks.
Which material do engineers use to insulate and prevent quantum tunneling in 2-nanometer chips?
Approximately how many transistors can fit on a fingernail-sized 2-nanometer microchip?
play_review Atomic Scale Shrinking
Ten atoms wide, ten atoms wide! Our future is ten atoms wide.
play_review Packing billions more transistors onto a single chip shortens the distance electrical signals must travel, boosting speed.
Microchip scale: A single strand of human DNA is about 2.5 nanometers wide, meaning 2-nanometer transistors are literally smaller than our genetic code.
How does a 2-nanometer microchip's energy consumption compare to a 3-nanometer chip?
A semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. IBM unveiled a 2-nanometer chip in 2021, packing fifty billion transistors onto a single fingernail-sized wafer.