Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for May 6, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

IBM says it has created the world's first 2 nanometer chip. Google really wants everybody to use

two-factor authentication. Twitter is enacting more speed bumps to get you to

stop trolling people in your tweets, Apple's delicate dance with Netflix over in-app payments, and SpaceX

finally gets its Mars rocket to not blow up on landing. Here's what you

missed today in the world of tech.

The tech industry is continuing to rage, rage against the dying of Moore's law. IBM says it has created the first ever two nanometer chip, which IBM

says could improve performance by 45% at the same power or 75 percent energy at the same performance compared to

seven nanometer chips quoting anantec. Every decade is the decade that tests the

limits of Moore's Law and this decade is no different.

With the arrival of extreme ultraviolet or EUV technology, the intricacies of multi-patterning techniques

developed on previous technology nodes can now be applied with the

finer resolution that EUV provides. That along with other more technical improvements can lead

to a decrease in transistor size

enabling the future of semiconductors. To that end today IBM is

announcing it has created the world's first two nanometer node chip.

Just to clarify here, while the process node is being called two nanometer, nothing about

the transistor dimensions resembles a traditional expectation of what two nanometers might be. In the past the dimension used to be an

equivalent metric for 2D feature size on the chip such as 90 nanometer, 65

nanometer, and 40 nanometer. However, with the advent of 3D transistor design

with FinFets and others, the process node name

is now an interpretation of an equivalent 2D transistor design.

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