IBM's breakthrough 2nm chip tech is Intel's clearest path to teeny tiny CPUs

IBM just popped up with an exciting breakthrough in transistor technology—the world's first 2nm chips. The news comes straight out of IBM's semiconductor research facility Albany, New York, and means great things for the likes of the company's partners, such as Samsung, and not least its newest partner: Intel.

In fact, it might just prove immensely valuable in Intel's race to catch up with rivals TSMC.

With 50 billion transistors in a chip the "size of a fingernail," IBM claims the...