Introducing the first sub-1 nanometer node chip — the smallest, most powerful chip technology in the world

It’s the world’s first 0.7nm chip technology. Powered by IBM’s new nanostack architecture, this structure will pave the way for more powerful and efficient chips for years to come. This is the architecture to accelerate the Angstrom era.

When you boil down the last century of breakthroughs in computing, you’re left with something that almost feels closer to alchemy. We learned to shoot lightning at sand until it could do math. Over the decades, we learned to purify the silicon in the sand and turn it into transistors. Since then, the computers they power have revolutionized every facet of our lives. So much of our modern lives is powered by these infinitesimally small silicon devices that we have managed to shrink in size. The first transistor fit in the palm of your hand, and now the phone in your pocket contains tens of billions of transistors just in its central processor.

But as breakthroughs continue, as has the demand for compute power. AI and quantum computing are advancing at breakneck speed, and making us ask new questions of the devices we use.

That’s why today, IBM announced it’s once again unveiling the smallest, most powerful computer chip technology in the world. These are the first sub-1 nanometer node chips, designed with transistor nodes that are just 0.7 nanometers, or 7 angstroms, wide. That makes them the smallest transistors in the world — by some margin. The team at IBM achieved this feat with several key breakthroughs in wafer bonding, SRAM scaling, and channel material innovation.