Slymeat
Move on, nothing to see.
So very bloody true @Fact Finder. I believe it is time the world stops it’s fascination with making transistors smaller, in order to get speed improvements, and looks elsewhere. And I agree that that elsewhere should be Akida.At severe risk of being accused of being a no-it-all (smart arse)as I have said it for two years now but remember this is an investment and so it’s important to firmly understand the significance of what Brainchip and AKIDA technology is bringing to the table so I have said it once now I will say it 1,000 times:
1. Samsung, Intel, Nvidia, ARM, Bosch, Google, APPLE in other words the entire semi conductor world are chasing smaller semiconductors because Von Neumann compute has reached its limits and the only way to increase performance and reduce power is to go smaller and smaller,
2. Two things happen every single time they go smaller cost goes up exponentially and yield goes down,
3. AKIDA at 28nm still wins on power and performance even when the rest are at 3nm,
4. AKIDA at 28nm is cheap to produce,
5. AKIDA at 28nm at TSMC has a yield rate exceeding 90%,
6. AKIDA at 28nm can be produced even by Intel,
7. AKIDA at 28nm crushes Loihi 2 at 7nm,
8. AKIDA can stay at 28nm and use carbon nanotube connections and up performance without going down in size,
9. AKIDA can give NASA what it needs at 90nm making it even more radiation resilient but imagine what happens to all the other tech like Snapdragon chasing smaller and smaller form down to 3nm if you say that’s great we will have it in 90nm thanks.
AKIDA is without doubt the stuff of Science Fiction.
My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA
At 3nm, transistors are only 15-times the size of a Silicon atom (0.2nm). Surely we are getting to the limits of both manufacturing and also down to sizes where quantum effects start to come into play.
I believe 28nm, or even 22nm, is a nice sweet spot for silicon to operate in. This can be produced economically by many manufacturers, and has inherent heat transfer and robustness advantages.
There is some talk about photon based transistors, which theoretically can be 20 times faster than silicon transistors employing electrons. But due to the wavelengths of light involved (1.3 micro meters —or 1300nm), the transistors necessarily are at about 100-times larger than even 22nm technology.