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IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology
IBM’s nanostack transistors could boost chip performance or energy efficiency.
TL;DR
- IBM's new 'nanostack' architecture integrates nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized chip.
- It is described as the 'world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology' for AI data centers.
- The architecture achieves higher transistor density by vertically stacking transistors in a staggered layout.
- Projections suggest a potential 50% increase in computing performance or 70% greater energy efficiency.
- IBM researchers also demonstrated a 40% improvement in scaling for static random-access memory (SRAM).
- Commercial chips using this technology could be produced within the next five to ten years.