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IBM Unveils First Sub-1nm Chip With 100 Billion Transistors
Technology

IBM Unveils First Sub-1nm Chip With 100 Billion Transistors

Big Blue says its new ‘‘nanostack’’ 3D architecture packs roughly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized die, redrawing the roadmap past the 1-nanometer barrier.

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Monash Builds a Tiny Chip That Computes With Light, Not Electricity
Technology

Monash Builds a Tiny Chip That Computes With Light, Not Electricity

Australian researchers have packed multiple optical functions onto a single chip, opening a path to faster, lower-power computing — and quantum-inspired tech that runs at room temperature.

2 min read
Penn Built a Light-Matter Particle That Could Make AI Chips 1,000x More Efficient
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Penn Built a Light-Matter Particle That Could Make AI Chips 1,000x More Efficient

University of Pennsylvania physicists demonstrated all-light switching using only 4 femtojoules of energy — a step toward photonic AI chips that skip electrons entirely.

3 min read
Stanford's Fingertip-Sized Chip Boosts Light 100x With Tiny Power Draw
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Stanford's Fingertip-Sized Chip Boosts Light 100x With Tiny Power Draw

A new Stanford optical amplifier the size of a fingertip can intensify light signals 100-fold on a few hundred milliwatts — small enough to run on a battery and fit inside a smartphone.

3 min read
New 25-Nanometer Memory Chip Gets More Efficient as It Shrinks
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New 25-Nanometer Memory Chip Gets More Efficient as It Shrinks

Researchers at Science Tokyo built a hafnium-oxide memory device that overturns a 50-year-old assumption — one that has constrained chip design for decades.

3 min read