1.8nm, that is the objective that the company set for a long time and it seems that they are very close.
Development complete?
And it is that, according to a UDN report, Intel would have completed the development of its manufacturing processes of the Intel 18A (1.8 nm) and Intel 20A (2 nm)
This means that a new smaller processor would be very close to seeing the light.
The scheduled dates we talked about in past years gave the 2024 as release year and it seems that everything is going well.
In addition, not only UDN talks about this data, but also Intel China President Wang Rui confirmed at an event that this is so and that they already finished production development.
This does not mean that they are manufactured and ready for the market, but that they have managed to make them work and have confirmed that their features can be implemented in 1.8nm and 2nm.
When will we see them?
From what the company itself tells us, Intel plans to launch these chips onto the market next year, with the largest, the 2nm ones being the first, during the first half of 2024and the 1.8nm ones in the next one.
Although this does not mean that we will not have news and possibly new data about them before they are released, since it is likely that they are not the only company that is working on them and their competitors will have something to counterattack with.
For now, we have to wait and be satisfied with what we have, since thinking that a size of 1.8nm can be achieved escapes many minds since 1.8nm would be equivalent to 0.00000018 centimeters, something that we cannot compare with anything. Its size would be like 1 million fleas put together.
They will use a new RibbonFET transistor structuresomething that is not yet known and therefore we do not know how it will work, it is the only way to reduce its size and we understand that if they do so it will be because they have proven that everything is going well, we do not believe that they want to risk it in their quality by 0.2nm difference.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced the following.
«We keep making progress with Intel 18A, We have already shared the engineering version of the 0.5 Process Design Kit with our key customers and expect to have a final production version in the coming weeks.”
Therefore, everything is going quite well and we will soon bring you more news about the smallest (and hopefully powerful) chip in the world.
As a curiosity, the cover image is not real, since 2nm are so small that they cannot be practically even photographed, that is why we leave you this image above where you can appreciate its real dimensions, although we did not even imagine it.
