News Summary

• IBM claims its new chip tech is the equivalent of around 0.7nm.
• This may make it the world's first known chip technology below 1nm.
• The firm claims in tests, its prototype performed 50% better than its own 2nm chip and was 70% more energy efficient.
• It will be several years before the chip tech could be ready to go into production.
• The more transistors manufacturers can squeeze onto a chip, the more powerful the chip becomes, and therefore the more devices can do.