Jun 25, 2026
IBM's 100-Billion-Transistor Chip and Europe's Grid Woes
IBM has unveiled a prototype chip packing 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-sized area — twice the density of its 2021 record — potentially extending Moore's Law by a decade. Meanwhile, Europe's record heat wave is straining power grids in ways that reveal a deeper structural challenge for climate-era energy planning.
