1.8nm is the goal the company has been aiming for for a long time and it looks like they are very close.
Development finished?
And it is that, according to a UDN report, Intel reportedly completed development of its manufacturing processes for the 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 of day.
The planned dates that we have talked about over the past years have given the 2024 as release year and it seems that everything is going well.
Moreover, not only UDN talks about this data, but also Intel China President Wang Rui confirmed at an event that this is so and that they have already completed production development.
This does not mean that they are manufactured and ready for the market, but that they have succeeded in making them work and have confirmed that their functionalities can be implemented in 1.8 nm and 2 nm.
When will we see them?
From what the company itself tells us, Intel plans to launch these chips on the market next year, with the larger ones, 2nm being the first, during the first semester 2024and those of 1.8 nm in the following.
While that doesn’t mean we won’t have news and possibly new data on them before they’re released, as chances are they’re not the only company working on them and their competitors will have something against -tackle.
For now, we have to wait and make do with what we have, because to think that a size of 1.8 nm can be achieved escapes many minds since 1.8 nm would be equivalent to 0.00000018 centimeters , something that cannot be compared to anything. Its size would be like 1 million chips put together.
They will use a new structure of RibbonFET transistorssomething that is not known yet and so we don’t know how it will work, it’s the only way to reduce its size and we understand that if they do it will be because they have proven that everything will Well, we don’t believe they want to risk their quality by a 0.2nm difference.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced the following.
“We continue to progress with Intel 18A, We have already shared the engineering version of the Process Design Kit 0.5 with our major customers and expect to have a final production version in the coming weeks.
So things are going pretty well, and we’ll be bringing you more information about the world’s smallest (and hopefully most powerful) chip soon.
Out of curiosity, the cover image is not real, since 2 nm are so small that they can hardly even be photographed, that’s why we leave you this image above where you can appreciate its real dimensions , although we do not even imagine it.
