Guwahati, June 25 -- By NE NOW NEWS

Guwahati: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has unveiled a new semiconductor design that it says could pave the way for chips with up to 100 billion transistors packed onto a silicon die the size of a fingernail, marking what could become the world's first chip technology below the one-nanometre threshold.

The company said its new NanoStack architecture is equivalent to a process node of around 0.7 nanometres (nm), significantly smaller than today's industry-leading chips, which are based on roughly 2nm technology. However, IBM acknowledged that the technology remains in the research stage and is still several years away from commercial production.

According to IBM, laboratory tests s...