IBM-Led Team Pulls Off Major Chip Feat

IBM Research on Thursday announced that an alliance it leads has produced the first 7nm node test chips with functioning transistors. Big Blue's partners are GlobalFoundries, Samsung and the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute's Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, or SUNY Poly CNSE. The alliance sought to develop industry-first innovations, such as Silicon Germanium channel transistors, and Extreme Ultraviolet lithography integration at multiple levels.

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