IBM is doubling down on the semiconductor frontier, not by constructing fabs, but by controlling the technology that other companies will require to make the next generation of chips.
Big Blue signed a new cooperative research agreement with Japan’s SCREEN Semiconductor Solutions to collaborate on developing cleaning procedures for High-NA (High Numerical Aperture) intense ultraviolet lithography.
This is the advanced patterning technology required to make chips that are less than 2 nanometers wide.
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