US Stock Market Move | IBM (IBM.US) rose nearly 4% with the launch of the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip manufacturing process technology.

On Friday, IBM (IBM.US) rose nearly 4% to $268.35. On the news front, on June 25th local time, IBM announced a major semiconductor technology breakthrough: the launch of the world's first sub-1 nanometer (Sub-1nm) chip manufacturing process technology. This technology uses a revolutionary transistor architecture, successfully pushing the process node to 0.7 nanometers (or 7 Angstrom) level. The official announcement shows that thanks to the new 3D "NanoStack" transistor architecture, IBM has successfully integrated nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail, with the transistor density almost twice that of IBM's 2nm chip launched in 2021. Compared to the current 2nm process, the sub-1nm technology is expected to bring a leap in performance and energy efficiency: at the same power consumption, its computing performance can be increased by up to 50%; or at the same computing performance, its energy consumption can be reduced by up to 70%. This dual breakthrough will greatly alleviate the urgent need for high computing power and energy efficiency in generative AI, cloud infrastructure, and next-generation smart devices.