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www.eetasia.com, May. 12, 2021 –
IBM (particularly the marketing team) deserves a healthy dose of congratulations for its announcement this week of a 2nm test chip. The news was picked up far and wide, reported everywhere from The Verge to Fox News and in between.
IBM compared the improvements of its 2 nm technology to 7 nm technology power and performance characteristics claiming 45% higher performance and 75% reduction in power consumption.
IBM also made the now obligatory biological entity comparison by explaining the transistor was the size of two DNA strands.