Chip manufacturers can further reduce the size of transistors thanks to new technology.
The breakthrough technology will create the next generation of computers based on two-dimensional semiconductors. Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have announced that they have developed a technology that solves the problem of Moore’s Law, an acute problem for chip manufacturers, according to MIT’s official website.
The whole problem is that, according to Moore’s law, the number of transistors on a chip must be steadily doubled. Roughly speaking, chip designers are trying to make them all smaller, but this is not possible due to the doubling of the number of transistors: the more powerful the processor, the more transistors it needs. Moreover, these transistors need to be on silicon. And today, with the chip industry on the brink, it’s impossible to scale down processors beyond that and still make them perform according to IT needs.
But MIT says it has developed a method for non-epitaxial, single-crystal growth. The scientists applied a mask to a silicon wafer with a coating of silicon dioxide, which they each created into tiny niches that held the crystals still “in bud”. They then passed a gas of atoms through this plate, which settled into each niche and formed a TMD transistor.
As a result, the MIT team was able to develop a method that would allow chipmakers to manufacture even smaller transistors from 2D materials by growing them on wafers made of existing silicon and other materials. This means that the limits of Moore’s law have been moved back again for the IT industry.
Previously Focus He wrote about why chip production is “moving away” from China and Russia.
Source: Focus
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