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Semiconductor Breakthrough: Scientists Just Widened the Gap With New
Tiny Chips

"A team of researchers just made a breakthrough in semiconductor
materials, creating a chip that could push back the "end" of Moore's Law
and further widening the capability gap between China and U.S.-adjacent
efforts in the field of 1-nanometer chips, according to a recent study
published in the journal Nature.

World leaders are racing to own a piece of future semiconductor chip
technology
The breakthrough was accomplished in a joint effort, involving the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), National Taiwan University
(NTU), and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), which is
the world's largest contract manufacturer of advanced chips. At the core
of the breakthrough is a process that employs semi-metal bismuth to
allow for the manufacture of semiconductors below the 1-nanometer (nm)
level.

Most present-day technology can already produce chips down to the 3-nm
scale, but this breakthrough could literally "break the limits of
Moore's Law," said Professor Chih-I Wu of the NTU, who is one of 23
authors in the study, in the announcement shared on NTU's website,
according to a South China Morning Post report. Moore's Law is an
engineering "rule of thumb" about the enhancement of computing power
that says the cost of computing power will fall by half every time the
number of transistors on a chip doubles (every two years)."

Read more here:

https://interestingengineering.com/semiconductor-breakthrough-widened-gap-tiny-chips

And read the following interesting news:

With the following new discovery computers and phones could run
thousands of times faster..

Prof Alan Dalton in the School of Mathematical and Physics Sciences at
the University of Sussex, said:

"We're mechanically creating kinks in a layer of graphene. It's a bit
like nano-origami.

"Using these nanomaterials will make our computer chips smaller and
faster. It is absolutely critical that this happens as computer
manufacturers are now at the limit of what they can do with traditional
semiconducting technology. Ultimately, this will make our computers and
phones thousands of times faster in the future.

"This kind of technology -- "straintronics" using nanomaterials as
opposed to electronics -- allows space for more chips inside any device.
Everything we want to do with computers -- to speed them up -- can be
done by crinkling graphene like this."

Dr Manoj Tripathi, Research Fellow in Nano-structured Materials at the
University of Sussex and lead author on the paper, said:

"Instead of having to add foreign materials into a device, we've shown
we can create structures from graphene and other 2D materials simply by
adding deliberate kinks into the structure. By making this sort of
corrugation we can create a smart electronic component, like a
transistor, or a logic gate."

The development is a greener, more sustainable technology. Because no
additional materials need to be added, and because this process works at
room temperature rather than high temperature, it uses less energy to
create.

Read more here:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210216100141.htm

Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.