A nanosheet FET, next generation transistor, is a finFET on its side with a gate wrapped around it. This enables higher performance chips at lower power. Samsung plans to introduce nanosheets at 3nm in 2022 or 2023. TSMC will have risk production of 3nm this year. TSMC’s risk production is said to target 30,000 wafers …
IBM announced the first chip with 2 nanometer (nm) nanosheet technology. IBM’s new 2 nm chip technology helps advance the state-of-the-art in the semiconductor industry, addressing this growing demand. It is projected to achieve 45 percent higher performance, or 75 percent lower energy use, than today’s most advanced 7 nm node chips. Four years after …
Today is May the Fourth be with you day. Star Wars is usually considered a Space Opera Fantasy and not a source of accurate predictions of the future. However, there is a significant probability that day to day life could have many similarities to the worlds of Star Wars. I, Brian Wang, actually believe that …
Hydrostor, a long duration energy storage solution provider, today announced the development of 1,000 MW of long duration energy storage in the state. The California Public Utilities Commission has identified a need for up to 1,600 MW of long duration energy storage by 2026. Long duration energy storage is critical to achieving California’s decarbonization and …
Tesla has 25% global market share for unit sales of battery electric vehicles, followed by SAIC Motor with 17%, Volkswagen with 8%, Stellantis with 5% and BYD with 5%. Hyundai-Kia and Renault-Nissan had large drops in their battery-electric and plug-in electric sales. Renault-Nissan had 13% share in 2020 but has dropped to 4%. Street Legal …
Barrons reports on evidence that Tesla is tracking to 1 million sales in 2021. Barrons is a leading financial paper. Barrons article is entitled “Tesla Stock Turns Higher Because Sales and Deliveries May Blow Away Estimates”. A key Tesla supplier revenues indicates Tesla is buying components for 1 million cars in 2021. Tesla’s 10Q filing …
Elon Musk tweets FSD Beta V9.0 will blow your mind and limited Beta release will probably be in two weeks. Probably two weeks — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2021 Gating factor is achieving & proving higher safety with pure vision than with vision+radar. We are almost there. FSD Beta V9.0 will blow your mind. …
Here is a presentation by Taiwan Semiconductor Chairman Liu. TSMC and Samsung are the current masters of EUV lithography. TSMC has the lead. Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography has enabled TSMC to achieve higher patterning fidelity, shorter cycle times and reduced process complexity and defect rates. TSMC uses EUV in ten mask layers for the 5nm …
The US Navy will place its first at-sea hypersonic missiles aboard one of the service’s three Zumwalt-class destroyers in four years (by 2025). These will likely be hypersonic warheads on regular vertically launched missiles. Hypersonic warheads can go faster and can move around more than regular warheads. Hypersonic weapons go at 5 times the speed …
Taiwan Semiconductor will be mass-producing Apple’s new M2 chip in July for use in MacBooks for the second half of 2021. The M2 will eventually be used in other Mac and Apple devices beyond the MacBook. The new chipset is produced by key Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chipmaker, using …
Here is The 2021 battery technology roadmap from the Journal of Applied Physics. A roadmap presents an overview of the current state of various kinds of batteries, such as the Li/Na/Zn/Al/K-ion battery, Li–S battery, Li–O2 battery, and flow battery. Above- Ragone plot illustrating the performances of specific power vs specific energy for different electrical energy-storage …
