For the entire semiconductor industry, Moore's Law guides the continuous development of the semiconductor field, especially for complex devices such as CPUs, transistor density and number will determine the performance of the CPU, but in recent years, due to the limitations of process and technology, the transistor density belongs to a certain extent in the state of standing still, resulting in CPU performance has not changed by leaps and bounds, or in terms of power consumption and heat generation can not achieve a balance. However, as the big brother in the semiconductor field, Intel announced their latest research results on semiconductor process at the International Electronic Device Conference, according to the relevant results, Intel's chip transistor density will be greatly improved in the future.
The first is the density of transistors, this indicator will determine the number of transistors in a certain area, Intel said that the future will use a new transistor microfilm technology, so that transistors become smaller, faster, compared to the current transistor density, the future through new technology, can provide more millions of transistors per square area. At the same time, the interconnect density in the chip package will be increased by up to 10 times. At the same time, with the help of 3D transistor stacking technology, the usable area of the chip can be realized, so that more transistors are crammed into the chip. At the same time, Intel also hopes to reduce the volume of transistors by 50% with the help of new microfiber materials, without much change in performance.
In addition, Intel will also integrate gallium nitride-based power devices into the chip to achieve more powerful computing power. In the quantum field, Intel will also say that in the future, it will launch terminal products based on quantum technology to replace the current transistors, thereby achieving a significant increase in computing power, and even redefining future computing to a certain extent, It can be said that Intel believes that for the future semiconductor industry, the introduction of quantum computing will completely change the entire computing market. Of course, these technologies are still a few years away from launch to landing, and consumers still have to look at it