IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer of Systems Development Christian Jacobi joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about microchips. How small can we make a microchip? How was the first computer chip created? Why are there only a few chip makers in the world? Answers to these questions and many more await on Microchip Support.
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00:00 – Microchip Support
00:15 – 1+1 = 10
01:21 – Billions of times per second, you say?
01:56 – The microchip monopoly
02:48 – It’s not your computer, it’s Internet Explorer
03:15 – Why are data centers so big?
04:38 – I got billions of transistors…
05:42 – …but a switch ain’t one.
06:11 – It’s getting hot in here
06:35 – How microchips are made
08:39 – The dawn of the (micro)chip
09:32 – AI = better chips?
10:12 – Schrödinger’s chip
11:17 – Microchip gains
12:08 – The Angstrom Age and beyond
13:23 – Semiconductor supercycle: Peak or crash?
14:39 – They’re called microchips for a reason
15:18 – GPU vs CPU
16:27 – Chips need all the chefs in the kitchen
18:24 – Dennard Scaling is failing Moore and Moore
20:07 – Microchip design embraces imperfections
21:11 – Microchips in brains?
22:51 – A speck of dust never seemed so big
23:22 – How Christian became IBM’s CTO
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9:45 I don’t look at it that way either. I always think that AI, no matter how powerful or how much it is capable of, is just a tool. AI is powerful because it can do a parallel computation so much fast. We, humans, is different. Our brain is designed to do processing so much fast too, but not in parallel, it’s just works in a different way. AI has a data centers, they can search through the internet, gathering information, connecting information and make a summary, all just in seconds. But no matter how fast it is, it’s just a tool that can make us more productive (if we used it in a right way). AI can process things so fast, use it to do tasks that we can’t do as fast as it can, so we can be more productive by doing other things. Really, it’s just about how we’re going to use AI. And also, AI needs a huge power supply just to process a single prompt the user asks, humans need just a few Watts of power to do things. So basically, we’re in a really long way ahead of AI in terms of power efficiency. So, are we gonna be replaced by AI? Well, I don’t think so.
“How was the first microprocessor created when computers absolutely did exist before the invention of microprocessors? I forgot all about vacuum tubes, punch cards, etc.”
12:45 I thought the limit right now is electron migration. Pathways so small and close together that the electrons can jump lanes.
Haha GPUs came out 20 or so years ago. Yikes. I think more like 30? Am I this old?
No to AI, no to Data Centers
1:57 forgot the only only company capable to do UV litography below 5nm in europe, ASML. TMSC and other companies cannot create chips without ASML machines.
Zwei Sätze gehört und direkt gewusst, er’s auch deutsch hahaha