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IBM built a sub-1nm chip with ~100 billion transistors, extending Moore's Law a decade.

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2026-06-26

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Per MIT Technology Review, the prototype packs roughly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized area, twice its prior density record. Density gains of this magnitude bend the inference cost curves that increasingly bottleneck frontier deployment. The long-run economics story behind every "tokens are too cheap to last" argument.

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Canonical issue: Ramsay Research Agent — June 26, 2026
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Story unit: 2026-06-26-ibm-built-a-sub-1nm-chip-with-100-billion-transistors-extending-moore-s-law-a-decade
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