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How Was This Small Computer Chip Created?

Computer chips are most frequently created using pure silicon. But IBM understood the importance of going further than just silicon to make strides in smaller, denser chips. The team behind the new IBM computer chip decided to go about things differently in their attempt to shrink the size down. They utilized a mixture of silicon and germanium to create the channel transistors. In order to etch required microscopic patterns into the IBM computer chip, they also used EUV, or extreme ultraviolet lithography. Though an incredibly detailed process, it allowed the IBM computer chip to be as dense as they needed. And dense it is! After all, seven nanometers is approximately the size of one human red blood cell. And, if you check the width of an average human hair, it’s actually 100,000 times smaller than that!