[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-ibm-claims-a-chip-breakthrough-below-1-nanometer":10,"sections":34},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":29,"feedback":33,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":33,"total_tokens":33},2244,"ibm-claims-a-chip-breakthrough-below-1-nanometer","IBM Claims a Chip Breakthrough Below 1 Nanometer","IBM says it has demonstrated sub-1nm chip technology, a threshold no commercial process has crossed before.","IBM has announced what it calls the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology.\n\nThe company debuted the process on June 25, 2026, marking a claimed milestone in semiconductor scaling. Modern commercial chips — including those from TSMC and Intel — operate at process nodes measured in low single-digit nanometers, with 2nm production just beginning to ramp. Getting below 1nm has been considered a hard physical boundary by much of the industry, where quantum effects and atomic-scale tolerances make transistor shrinkage increasingly unreliable. IBM did not disclose detailed yield figures, manufacturing partners, or a timeline to production.\n\nSemiconductor node names have been marketing fictions for years — \"3nm\" chips do not have 3nm transistor gates — but sub-1nm as a label would still represent a meaningful jump in transistor density if the underlying physics hold up. IBM has a history of announcing chip research milestones well ahead of any commercial reality: its 2nm chip announcement in 2021 still has not reached mass production. The gap between a lab demonstration and a foundry shipping wafers at scale is where these claims usually quietly expire.\n\nFor now, treat this as a research result, not a product. The industry will want to see peer-reviewed process details before updating its roadmaps.","[\"semiconductors\",\"hardware\",\"ibm\",\"chips\"]","2026-06-25T15:33:37.000Z","2026-06-25T17:52:56.111Z","2026-06-27T15:37:43.192Z","published",null,[],"hardware",[26,24,27,28],"semiconductors","ibm","chips",[30],{"name":31,"url":32},"Hacker News","https:\u002F\u002Fnewsroom.ibm.com\u002F2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology",0,{"sections":35},[36,41,46,51,56,60,65,70,75,80,85,89,94,99],{"name":37,"slug":38,"count":39,"latest_published_at":40},"AI","ai",2590,"2026-07-16T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":42,"slug":43,"count":44,"latest_published_at":45},"Security","security",294,"2026-07-15T19:59:48.000Z",{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Policy","policy",158,"2026-07-16T00:02:48.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":24,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Hardware",122,"2026-07-14T19:46:26.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",93,"2026-07-13T13:20:48.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Software","software",70,"2026-07-13T19:52:25.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Science","science",66,"2026-07-10T10:29:37.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",59,"2026-07-07T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":83,"latest_published_at":88},"Startups","startups","2026-06-29T20:55:50.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"General","general",29,"2026-07-10T22:28:58.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]