IBM has already designed the world’s first 2nm processor chips

NEW DELHI : American technology giant, IBM, has unveiled the world’s first 2nm process chip, providing a proof of concept for what chips running smartphones, autonomous cars and more will look like in future. The 2nm here refers to the size of transistors on a chip. Companies can fit more transistors on a chip, making them more powerful and efficient. Essentially, companies can make smaller chips, which consume less power for a given performance level, or vice versa.

The new 2nm chip, according to a response the company gave to AnandTech, holds 333 million transistors per square millimeter. So, a chip the size of a fingernail (150 square millimetres in this context) can hold as many as 50 billion transistors.