The future of chips: how gate-all-around design is powering the AI era and the next node

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how the world builds and uses computer chips. From massive data centers to devices at the edge of the network, AI requires chips continuing to get faster, smaller and more energy-efficient.

For decades, Moore’s Law, which accurately predicted that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double around every two years, kept the industry moving forward.

Unfortunately, conventional scaling approaches through planar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices, or FinFETs, which extended Moore’s Law, have reached their limits. The industry is now facing a critical challenge: trying to keep advancing chip technology when the old rule of thumb no longer applies.

The industry’s answer is gate-all-around (GAA). This design wraps the ...