Amd says we will continue to use silicon chips until 2030

AMD Senior Vice President for Data Center Forrest Norrod, speaking at the Rice Oil and Gas HPC conference, said that we will still have to wait a long time to use graphene, and it will probably be about ten years before this material. ' exotic 'really take advantage. As Norrod says, silicon still has a pretty long way to go.

Graphene is not yet ready for use in desktop processors, says AMD

Silicon is the simplest and cheapest material to use for any semiconductor, but with the passing of the years and the migration to smaller nodes, it becomes increasingly difficult to manipulate. It is said that silicon cannot be reduced beyond 3 nanometers, so manufacturers see graphene as the ideal long-term substitute.

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Manufacturers are being able to further reduce their production nodes (7nm right now), and the average time between node transitions is around four to five years. This means that the jump to 5 nm and then to 3 nm can take about 10 years, according to Norrod.

Graphene is, of course, being hailed as the next best candidate to take the place of silicon at the heart of our most complex and high-performance electronics, due, in part, to its high conductivity independent of temperature variation and its incredible resistance, being able to operate at Terahertz speeds. Graphene is a 2D material, which means that its implementation will have to occur on deposited sheets of graphene through some other material.

Meanwhile, this year we are seeing the first CPUs and GPUs manufactured at 7nm, AMD being the pioneer in this leap.

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