IBM has created the tiniest, densest computer chips in the world

IBM, not Intel, says it has created the world’s densest computer chips, at just 7-nanometers. By comparison, competitors like Intel have been struggling to shrink their consumer chips down below 14-nanometers. The company is currently commercializing 10-nanometer chips. IBM said that it now has working chips — which are still in the research phase — at the record-shattering size. IBM actually shed its semiconductor business in 2014, paying $1.5 billion to offload it to Globalfoundries. Instead, it licenses the technology it develops to be manufactured by Globalfoundries, which also builds chips for Broadcom, Qualcomm and AMD. The New York Times said that by comparison,…

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