Re:Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom
by philipkglass on Thursday March 28, 2024 @02:01PM
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Ignoring for the moment that transistors and synapses are very different in their function, the current in a CPU transistor is in the milliampere range...
That seems implausible. Apple's M2 has 20 billion transistors and draws 15 watts at full power [1]. Even assuming that 90% of those transistors are for cache and not logic, that would still be 2 billion logic transistors * 1 milliampere = 2 million amperes at full power. That would imply a voltage of 7.5 microvolts, which is far too low for silicon transistors.
That seems implausible. Apple's M2 has 20 billion transistors and draws 15 watts at full power [1]. Even assuming that 90% of those transistors are for cache and not logic, that would still be 2 billion logic transistors * 1 milliampere = 2 million amperes at full power. That would imply a voltage of 7.5 microvolts, which is far too low for silicon transistors.
[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/17431/apple-announces-m2-soc-...