The first computer chip with a trillion transistors
It should speed up calculations for artificial intelligence
SILICON CHIPS have lonely lives. They are born together, often as tens of thousands of identical siblings a few millimetres across, on a single wafer the size of an old-fashioned vinyl record. They are then broken from their natal wafers like squares of chocolate from a bar, and packaged individually in plastic and metal. Only after this is a chip reconnected to others of its kind, as the packages are wired up to work together on circuit boards and inserted into products.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “A trillion here, a trillion there”
Science & technology December 7th 2019
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