Re: IBM - New SUB-Nanometer STACKED Chip

"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <[email protected]>
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On 6/29/2026 2:09 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2026-06-28, c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> IBM unveils sub-1-nanometer chip architecture that stacks 100
>> billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized processor
>>
>> . . .
>>
>>     Pretty impressive ... and stacking two (three?) layers
>>     really packs a lot in.
>>
>>     NOT sure how they deal with the HEAT in the stacked
>>     design.
>>
>>     100 billion ... how many in the i4004 ?
> 
> Dunno - but I do remember that manufacturers hit a wall for
> a while when trying to get below 1 micrometer.  It took some
> time before memory chips larger than 64K became available.

Wall? Or Seal? :)


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