The world's first 5-nanometer chip was announced in June 2017.
On June 6, 2017, IBM announced that it had collaborated with Global Foundries and Samsung to develop a 5-nanometer fabrication technology chip, which can install 30 billion transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail, and is estimated to complete mass production in 2020.
IBM expects the continuous availability of 5nm processor products will improve the battery life of existing devices such as mobile phones by two to three times. Back in 2015, IBM worked with Global Foundries and Samsung to pilot produce a 7-nanometer wafer. The 5-nanometer chip will use the same UV lithography skills as the 7-nanometer chip. However, compared with existing skills, the new generation of skills will be much higher light wave energy, and also support the continuous adjustment of the power consumption and function of the chip during the production process.
To put it bluntly, this means that smartphones with 5-nm chips can last two to three days on a single charge. The technology is still in its early stages, but it is likely to be used in consumer devices before other chips IBM is developing. IBM expects commercial production of the technology to begin as soon as 2019, largely because its architecture uses many of the same building blocks as processors at the time.
Because more advanced manufacturing skills mean that more transistors can be combined on a smaller chip, making the chip more efficient. IBM executives indicate that nanosheets' ability to develop 5-nanometer chips will in the future provide better energy consumption in a smaller size. Therefore, under the complicated skills plans of other competitors with a new step, Intel's leading position in semiconductors is not still able to adhere to, and I am afraid that the trend is not too optimistic.
The world's first 5-nanometer chip is the Hisilicon Kirin 9000. It is the world's first mass-produced 5-nanometer mobile phone chip.