Jensen Huang anticipates 20% performance boost from gate-all-around transistors

In brief: While covering a wide range of topics during his keynote at Nvidia's GTC, CEO Jensen Huang briefly touched on the company's GPU roadmap beyond the upcoming Rubin architecture. The Feynman generation and those that follow will likely adopt semiconductor nodes featuring gate-all-around (GAA) transistors – the next evolution in transistor technology after FinFET. During a Q&A session at the GPU Technology Conference, Huang estimated a roughly 20% performance uplift from transitioning to GAA architecture. His comments offer an early indication of the company's expectations for future graphics chip designs. Semiconductor manufacturers such as TSMC and Intel have touted GAA transistors as a key technology for process nodes beyond 3nm. Recent nodes, including 3nm, have employed FinFET, a structure where the transistor gate surrounds the current channel on three sides. However, as bleeding-edge transistors shrink and become more densely packed in advanced nodes, electrical leakage ... Read full article.