Chips and Components

IBM has fit 20 billion more transistors onto a chip than it achieved with 7nm tech in 2017

The plans will create 700 new permanent jobs in New Mexico

Jaguar Land Rover has suspended production at two plants due to a shortage of computer chips

Chipmaking facility uses a lot of water, typically two to four million gallons each day

The move will enable the firm to avoid supply chain disruptions and improve its own infrastructure

ARMv9 features Confidential Compute Architecture and 'Realms' to shield sensitive data and code from the OS and non-permitted apps

CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company will invest $20 billion (£14.6 billion) on two new 'fabs' in Arizona this year

Renesas controls around a 20 per cent of global share in microcontrollers used in cars

The country is facing one of its worst droughts in decades

The chip is optimised for low-precision workloads with a range of machine learning and AI models, IBM says