IBM Unveils 2nm Chip with Improved Power-to-Digital Ratio Compared to 7nm
The first 2nm-based server is expected to be unveiled later this year.


IBM unveiled a chip developed using 2nm (nanometer) nanosheet technology on the 6th. The new 2nm chip contains up to 50 billion transistors and delivers 45% higher performance and 75% lower energy consumption than today's most advanced 7nm node chips.

The new chip could be used to quadruple cellphone battery life, reduce data center carbon emissions, enhance laptop capabilities such as faster application processing, language translation, and accelerate internet access, and help self-driving cars detect objects and shorten reaction times.

IBM's semiconductor development is conducted at a research facility within the Albany Nanotech Complex in New York. Here, IBM scientists collaborate with public and private sector partners to expand logic circuits and push the boundaries of semiconductor performance.

IBM's first commercially available 2nm chips, including an upgraded version of the Albany lab's 7nm chips, are expected to be deployed on IBM Power10-based IBM Power systems later this year.

Meanwhile, IBM was the first in the industry to implement 7nm and 5nm process technologies. Additionally, it was the first to develop single-cell DRAM, Dennard scaling law, chemically amplified photoresist, copper interconnect wiring, silicon on insulator (SOI) technology, multi-core MPU, high-k gate dielectric, embedded DRAM, and 3D chip stacking technology.