IIBM has said that it will deliver an exascale chip within the next five years. The company made the annoucement less than two weeks after the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory announced the creation of the Exascale Technology and Computing Institute (ETCi). Big Blue has also stated that the chip, based on new technology called CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics, can be produced on the front end of a standard CMOS manufacturing line and requires no new or special tooling.
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