IBM and Samsung Announce VTFET, Could Give Us Weeklong Battery Time

Samsung and IBM are developing tech that could allow us to use our phones for a whole week on a single charge.

IBM in partnership with Samsung have announced a new approach of semiconductor designing which according to them could be a massive breakthrough in the computing world. Semiconductors are components present inside our electronic devices and computers that conduct electricity but whose conductivity can be adjusted as per need.

The new method has been named Vertical Transport Field Effect Transistor (VETFET) which allows transistors to be stacked vertically on a chip rather than the normal horizontal placement. The new technology will succeed Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FinFet) which is currently used in our current electronic devices such as mobiles, watches, laptops etc.

The new VETFET technology is revealed in hopes that they could keep up with the Moore’s Law. Moore’s Law is based on the observation of Gordon Moore who in 1965 said that every two years, the number of transistors on an Integrated circuit doubles in number. With IBM eyeing on the new VTFET technology, now they hope they could build more dense circuits, more denser than the 2nm chip revealed by them in May this year. This chip was the worlds first 2nm chip technology with almost 50 billion transistors put onto it.

With VTFET allowing more space inside a chip, this means now chips are going to be more efficient and powerful than ever. According to IBM’s speculation, the new semiconductor will be twice as efficient as the FinFET conductors under the same power input; In other words, VTFET will require 85% less power. With the new technology being installed in our electronic devices, mobile phones are projected to have battery that could keep running as long as a week. It will also have an impact on other fields of our computing world and crypto mining would require a lot less energy consumption than it do in current era.

by Anas Siddiqui