GloFo tests 7nm. We prolly shall see miners on this node next to next year.

[goxed]

It's no longer exclusively silicon transistors ay 7nm, its a Silicon Germanium channel x-istor..
http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/9/8919091/ibm-7nm-transistor-processor
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/ibm-unveils-industrys-first-7nm-chip-moving-beyond-silicon/

[philipma1957]

It's no longer exclusively silicon transistors ay 7nm, its a Silicon Germanium x-istor..
http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/9/8919091/ibm-7nm-transistor-processor

maybe 2018 not 2016, but  If someone were to go right to this skipping over all the in between  sizes  we would get close to a .05 watt per gh chip

[sidehack]

Have they finished solving the problems of working with Germanium usually costing something like two orders of magnitude more than silicon?

[jonnybravo0311]

Just because IBM demonstrated it is possible to achieve a 7nm process doesn't mean it'll be here next year by any stretch of the imagination.  I'd guess 2020 before 7nm is produced in a consumer chip.  They've got to go through 10nm first.

[hmblm1245]

Still that is pretty cool. Theory become reality is always interesting to witness.

[Grix]

And GPUs are still 28nm. What a joke

[Amph]

And GPUs are still 28nm. What a joke

well gaming industry don't need to push the processing so fast because many user are not running 10 x vga like in mining, and wasting energy for their instamining or fastmining or whatever

so the gain in consumption would not be so distinguished, but i believe than can already do gpu at a lower productive processing if they desire to do it, especially amd..

[Yan-Aquifer]

7Nm is going to be used in multi billion dollar markets such as cellular phones.  Until BTC goes up in price the entire mining market is only $400M right now for everyone.  Even if you were 25% of the global it's barely going cover the investment of 16Nm right now.  Most large companies make a number of different iterations of a desired processor before releasing the final product.  There are a lot of hidden costs in R&D and development that would not make 7Nm viable for some time without an increase in BTC price.


Regards,
yan

[goxed]

And GPUs are still 28nm. What a joke

That's because of TSMCs failed FinFet attempts.

[TheRealSteve]

I think goxed's broken image was supposed to be a link, so for the curious:
http://wccftech.com/tsmcs-16nm-finfet-faces-delays-qualcomm-jumps-ship-samsung/

[goxed]

I think goxed's broken image was supposed to be a link, so for the curious:
http://wccftech.com/tsmcs-16nm-finfet-faces-delays-qualcomm-jumps-ship-samsung/

Thanks!

Intel's having problems scaling down to 10nm.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33549916