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The brief · 25 June 2026

The AI brief, 2026-06-25

Today, IBM is completely changing the scale of its chips. The rest of the brief moves along more conventionally, between new models and robots learning to touch the world.

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IBM Pushes Chip Manufacturing Below the Nanometer Mark

Your next GPU or cloud CPU will run on stacked 3D architecture, not just finer etching. IBM claims up to 50% more performance or 70% energy savings versus the current 2nm node. Nothing ships immediately, but this lays the groundwork for the next generation of AI chips.

practitioners › The node measures 0.7nm (7 angstroms), built on a "nanostack" architecture unveiled June 25, 2026.

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