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IBM hails new 'block of flats' design breakthrough for ultra tiny chips
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- IBMImage caption, IBM's new sub-1 nm chip crams almost 100 billion transistors onto a surface the size of a fingernail
- Technology editor Published23 minutes ago IBM has unveiled a new chip design which it says could enable manufacturers to cram 100 billion transistors on a silicon chip the size of a fingernail.
- The current industry-standard size for chips, measured in a the unit of nanometres - a billionth of a metre and the size of a few atoms - is around two nanometres (nm).
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IBMImage caption, IBM's new sub-1 nm chip crams almost 100 billion transistors onto a surface the size of a fingernail
Technology editor Published23 minutes ago IBM has unveiled a new chip design which it says could enable manufacturers to cram 100 billion transistors on a silicon chip the size of a fingernail.
The current industry-standard size for chips, measured in a the unit of nanometres - a billionth of a metre and the size of a few atoms - is around two nanometres (nm).
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