https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology
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@ad Soon, there will 0.1nm, 0.01 nm chips.
Never mind that the diameter of a SINGLE atom of silicon is 0.4nm. Never mind it needs multiple layers, conductors, etc. Lmao
Intel will lead to 0 nm soon after laying off all its employees … lol
Sticking to the time-honored tradition of touting physical dimensions that bear no relation to anything actually inside the chip, the name once again scales better than the technology does.
What they're really shipping is a "nanostack architecture" built on roughly 5nm features, which they claim rivals what a genuine sub-1nm chip would deliver.
Still a genuinely impressive piece of engineering, but it seems the industry is carrying a few too many marketers on the payroll.
I won't get excited till they break below 1 picometer.
0.1pm is the size of an atomic nucleus so it will start to get tougher after that.