WE AND SILICON CHIPS:-
Integrated circuits.

Well known to every one that now and the upcoming time is of technology, artificial intelligence, internet of things, data science, etc. today any information from around the world is at tip of pour hands, just a click and you are served. Well it’s known that there are a lot of factors compromising the zenith attained by mankind in this sphere, the one today’s article is about CHIP OFTEN KNOWN AS SILICON CHIP, 14th element in the periodic table, the most abundant, preferred semiconductor.

What’s the most astonishing thing about chips nowadays is the size or to be more precise “the shrinking size”.

Technology, full of wondrous antiquity, laid it foundation stone in year 1946 with the invention of ENIAC, words first programmable electronic computer, developed by John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert, weighted 2700 tones, area 1800 sq-ft or precisely a 3BHK apartment, with electrical supply of 150kW( 300 mixer grinders at a time).

And today’s electronically derived computers weight (eg iphone 7 weighs 138gm), storage area required is one hand utmost, and electricity at a time is 2–6W depending upon the technical infrastructure. This enormous amount of versatility , energy power have somewhat been attained because of the the shrunken size of chips in these 5 decades from size of 10 microns to 0.005microns. It’s obvious that smartphones would have been handy with 10micrometre chip and not even efficient. Eact consecutive generation of computer chips is insuring more versatility, efficiency, reliablity.

HERE’S A QUICK LOOK :-

1971 — intel40004- 10 micrometer

1993- intel pentium — 0.8 micrometer

2007- intel core 2 duo — 0.065 micrometer

2013- snapdragon 800- 0.028 micrometer

2017 — apple A10X — 0.01 micrometer

2018 — apple A12X — 0.001 micrometer

2020 — apple A14 0.005 micrometer

2023* — TSMC — 0.003micrometer

2029* — 0.0014micrometer.

apple’s move 14nm A10 to 7nm A11 yielded a 25% increase in efficiency as per the reports , and lately, BBC reports says 5nm chips are expected to be 15% faster then 7nm chips while using the same power even working with higher speed as compared. This all is possible because of millions of transistors embedded in it. And this advancement would go and go.

AND a latest stuff about apple M1 silicon chip of 5 nm size with 16 billion transistors embedded.
['Abha Negi']
['AI', 'Chips', 'Silicon Valley', 'Technology']