3D Transistor gives 50Ghz of Clock Speed

A Japanese company named Unisantis is creating a processor which might be clocked up to 50GHz. It can accomplish this with a new 3D transistor design named SGT (surrounding gate transistor).

The research team will be headed by Prof Masuoka, who is a heavy guy in memory storage research and invented flash memory storage format. According to him, the 3D structure of SGT is arranged in such a way where there is a vertical silicon pillar surrounded by memory cells, electrical contacts and other components. This design greatly reduces the distance that electrons need to travel within the SGT. The 3D structure of SGT will definitely produce future IC chips that would have up to 10 times faster in speed compared with the current IC chips that built with transistors having 2D structure. And of course, this will make possible of processor’s clock speed over 20GHz and even more. This definitely sounds great but it will probably take many years for the research to come out with something solid for the market.

Via: TechChee