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The accomplishment was a joint effort with partners GlobalFoundries, Samsung, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

The techniques developed by the team of researchers resulted in at least a 50% power/performance improvement for next generation mainframe and POWER systems that will power the Big Data, cloud and mobile era.

“That’s why IBM has remained committed to an aggressive basic research agenda that continually pushes the limits of semiconductor technology”, he said. “We have been working on this technology for more than five years“. The new material choice allows transistors to switch faster and also use less power – in turn allowing them to sit more densely on a chip.

In 2013, a ex- electrical engineer of Intel, Robert Colwell, predicted that the Moore’s law will die within the decade because the shrinking of transistor size will reach a dead point. Intel current Core processors use minute, 14nm technology (14 billionths of a metre), and the company plans to shrink to 10nm next year.

Today (July 9), IBM has announced it has proved it’s possible to produce chips just 7 nanometers wide-or about the width of a few strands of DNA.

How are they doing it?

The new chip has three significant modifications.

Global Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) released its powerful latest computer chip on Thursday, which is stated by the firm that the chip can improve the computing power of everything from smartphones to spacecraft.

IBM has been trying to increase its hold of the chip-making industry for quite some time now.

Moore’s Law refers to the prediction first stated in 1965 by Intel founder Gordon Moore, who said that the number of transistors on a chip would double about every 18 months.

According to commentators, the test chip had working components, called transistors, but it was a research and development project rather than a finished product that could be built into a computing device like a laptop, server or smartphone.