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IBM's sub-1 nanometer announcement is a manufacturing-readiness story, not a victory lap for Moore's Law. The company said on 25 June that it had developed what it called the world's first sub-1nm chip technology, using a three-dimensional nanostack transistor architecture at the 0.7nm, or 7 angstrom, node.
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China's return to first place in the TOP500 supercomputer ranking is a real technical marker, but the useful question is what exactly was measured. The June 2026 TOP500 list puts LineShine, installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, at No. 1 after a submitted HPL benchmark result of 2,198.40 PFlop/s, ahead of the United States' El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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