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IBM Research Alliance Produces Industry’s First 7nm Node Test Chips. Dr. Michael Liehr (left) of SUNY Polytechnic Institute's Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and Bala Haran (right) of IBM Research inspect a wafer comprised of 7nm (nanometer) node test chips in a clean room in Albany, NY. IBM Research, working with alliance partners at SUNY Poly CNSE, has produced the semiconductor industry’s first 7nm node test chips with functional transistors. Date added: 09 Jul 2015 Photo courtesy of IBM / Darryl Bautista / Feature Photo Service for IBM

Armonk, N.Y., USA - December 20, 2018

• Agreement Expands 15-Year R&D Partnership to Define Leadership Roadmap for Semiconductor Industry

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an agreement with Samsung to manufacture 7-nanometer (nm) microprocessors for IBM Power Systems™, IBM Z™ and LinuxONE™, high-performance computing (HPC) systems, and cloud offerings.

The agreement combines Samsung's industry-leading semiconductor manufacturing with IBM's high-performance CPU designs.

This combination is being designed to drive unmatched systems performance, including acceleration, memory and I/O bandwidth, encryption and compression speed, as well as system scaling.

It positions IBM and Samsung as strategic partners leading the new era of high-performance computing specifically designed for AI.

Wafer of chips with 5nm silicon nanosheet transistors.
IBM Research scientist Nicolas Loubet holds a wafer of chips with 5nm silicon nanosheet transistors manufactured using an industry-first process that can deliver 40 percent performance enhancement at fixed power, or 75 percent power savings at matched performance.
Date added: 05 Jun 2017
Photo courtesy of IBM / Connie Zhou

"At IBM, our first priority is our clients," said John Acocella, Vice President of Enterprise Systems and Technology Development for IBM Systems.
"IBM selected Samsung to build our next generation of microprocessors because they share our level of commitment to the performance, reliability, security, and innovation that will position our clients for continued success on the next generation of IBM hardware."

Preparing test wafers with 5nm silicon nanosheet transistors.
IBM scientists at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s NanoTech Complex in Albany, NY prepare test wafers with 5nm silicon nanosheet transistors, loaded into the front opening unified pod, or FOUPs, to test an industry-first process of building 5nm transistors using silicon nanosheets.
Date added: 05 Jun 2017
Photo courtesy of IBM / Connie Zhou

Today's announcement also expands and extends the 15-year strategic process technology R&D partnership between the two companies which, as part of IBM's Research Alliance, includes many industry firsts such as the first NanoSheet Device innovation for sub 5nm, the production of the industry's first 7nm test chip and the first High-K Metal Gate foundry manufacturing.

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IBM's Research Alliance ecosystem continues to define the leadership roadmap for the semiconductor industry.


Silicon nanosheet transistors at 5nm. Pictured: a scan of IBM Research Alliance’s 5nm transistor, built using an industry-first process to stack silicon nanosheets as the device structure – achieving a scale of 30 billion switches on a fingernail-sized chip that will deliver significant power and performance enhancements over today’s state-of-the-art 10nm chips. Date added: 05 Jun 2017 Photo courtesy of IBM

"We are excited to expand our decade-long strategic relationship with IBM with our 7nm EUV process technology," said Ryan Lee, Vice President of Foundry Marketing at Samsung Electronics.
"This collaboration is an important milestone for Samsung's foundry business as it signifies confidence in Samsung's cutting-edge high performance EUV process technology."

Infographic: IBM pushing limits of chip technology to 7 nanometer and beyond.
Date added: 09 Jul 2015
Photo courtesy of IBM

Samsung is a member of the OpenPOWER Foundation, a vendor ecosystem facilitating the development of IBM Power architecture-based customized servers, networking and storage for future data centers and cloud computing.

Samsung is also a member of the Q Network to help advance the understanding of applications software in quantum computing for the industry.

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