Scientists just measured the smallest possible contacts for future computer chips

The rise of AI has created an almost insatiable appetite for computing power. Training and running AI systems requires vast ...
New Scientist

Record-breaking IBM chip uses trick to cram in 100 billion transistors

IBM's latest chip packs in twice as many transistors as the current state-of-the-art chip by adding a second layer of silicon ...
TechCentral

Top SA computer scientist on IBM’s chip breakthrough

One of South Africa’s leading computer scientists has weighed in on the significance of the first sub-1nm chip.
Nature

Breakthrough computer-chip tech could help meet ‘monumental demand’ driven by AI

A powerful light source bigger than a London double-decker bus has set a record: it can create structures on a silicon wafer that are just 8 nanometres (nm) wide. Those are thought to be the smallest ...
Forbes

IBM Unveils World’s First Sub-1nm Chip With 100 Billion 3D-Stacked Transistors

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. IBM has announced a major breakthrough in semiconductor technology, unveiling the world's ...
MIT Technology Review

IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade

The company, along with others, is pursuing a new paradigm for cramming more transistors on chips—building up. IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the ...
Nanowerk

Vacuum channel transistor suppresses gate leakage to enter chip circuits

A vacuum channel transistor controls electrons at the cathode to suppress gate leakage, letting it work inside amplifiers and NAND and NOR logic gates. (Nanowerk News) A research team in China has ...