IBM says it has created the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip

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IBM claims it has delivered a step change in chip technology after creating the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip. Building on the nano-sheet architecture the company used in 2021 to create a 2 nanometer chip, IBM says its new nano-stack design allowed it to go even further and make a functioning 7 angstrom, or 0.7 nanometer chip. The result is a piece of silicon with twice the density of its previous 2 nanometer design, packing nearly 100 billion transistors into a chip the size of a human fingernail. In practical terms, IBM says those additional transistors translate to a chip that offers either a up to 50% more performance or 70% greater energy efficiency than IBM's 2 nanometer node chips. Jay Gambetta, director of IBM Research, said the new architecture would enable a future where computing becomes significantly more powerful without a corresponding increase in energy. The new nano-stack architecture sees IBM building on its existing nano-sheet transistor technology. The company found it could vertically stack and stagger those transistors. Each transistor is made up of 3 nano-sheet elements that are approximately 5 nanometers thick, with about 9 nanometers separating each of them. For further context, each nano-sheet is made up of only 15 rows of silicon atoms.
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