When it will be developed and released? What does it look like when done and out of the market? What are the advantages of this new technology compared to the current one?
Australian physicists started a program of making a single atom device 10 years ago. This 2012, they are able to accomplish and introduce the world’s first single phosphorous atom transistor made with absolute perfect position.
It is covered in silicon; a thoroughly researched material commonly used by the computer industry and can increase the possibility of future manufacturing. It demonstrates all the potential for being the building block of a fast computer.
If someone develops a technique to contain the electrons in the channel even with high temperature, this technique could be used to operate the atom well and build a computer that would work at room temperature. There has been no announcement yet on who can develop this transistor and when it will be released in the market.
The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors defines the 5 nm or nanometer as the technology node next to the 7 nm node. Transistors at the 7 nm scale were originally created by researchers in the first ten years of the twenty first century. The process scale may signify the end of Moore’s Law scaling for electronic devices.
Transistors smaller than 7 nm will go through quantum tunneling by means of their logic gates. Because of the involved expenses in development, 5 nm transistors are expected to take longer than two years to reach market as predicted by Moore’s Law. As of 2016, no 5 nm scale devices have been produced commercially.
Even if Intel has not revealed any specific plans to retailers or manufacturers, their 2009 plan predicted an end-user release by about 2020. In 2015, Intel illustrated a lateral nanowire FET theory or gate-all-around for the 5 nm node. Also in 2015, Cadence and IMEC had produced 5 nm test chips. The test chips are not fully functional devices but will help in evaluating patterning of interconnect layers.
