#Steeven.™ Posted May 31, 2023 Posted May 31, 2023 The Intel company has been working on them for some time. Until now the smallest processors on the market would be the current 2nm chips, however, in a very short time we will see how they are surpassed. 1.8nm, that is the objective that the company set for a long time and it seems that they are very close. Development completed? And it is that, according to a UDN report, Intel would have completed the development of its manufacturing processes of Intel 18A (1.8 nm) and Intel 20A (2 nm) This means that a new smaller processor would be very close to seeing the light. The planned dates that we talked about in past years gave 2024 as the launch year and it seems that everything is on the right track. In addition, not only UDN talks about this data, but the president of Intel China, Wang Rui, confirmed at an event that this is the case and that they have already finished production development. This does not mean that they are manufactured and ready for the market, but that they have managed to make them work and have confirmed that their features can be implemented in 1.8nm and 2nm. When will we see them? From what the company itself tells us, Intel plans to launch these chips on the market next year, the largest being the 2nm ones, the first, during the first half of 2024, and the 1.8nm ones in the next. Although this does not mean that we will not have news and possibly new data about them before they are released, since it is likely that they are not the only company that is working on them and their competitors will have something to counterattack with. For now, we have to wait and be satisfied with what we have, since thinking that a size of 1.8nm can be achieved escapes many minds since 1.8nm would be equivalent to 0.00000018 centimeters, something that we cannot compare with anything. Its size would be like 1 million fleas put together. These will use a new RibbonFET transistor structure, something that is not yet known and therefore we do not know how it will work, it is the only way to reduce their size and we understand that if they do so it will be because they have proven that everything is going well, no We believe that they want to play it in their quality for a 0.2nm difference. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced the following. "We continue to make progress with Intel 18A, we have already shared the engineering version of the 0.5 process design kit with our key customers and we expect to have a final production version in the coming weeks." Therefore, everything is going quite well and we will soon bring you more news about the smallest (and hopefully powerful) chip in the world. As a curiosity, the cover image is not real, since 2nm are so small that they cannot be practically even photographed, that is why we leave you this image above where you can appreciate its real dimensions, although we did not even imagine it. https://hardzone.es/noticias/procesadores/procesador-mas-pequeno/
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