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3 articles First covered May 24, 2026, latest Jun 26, 2026

A silicon wafer patterned with IBM's sub-1-nanometer node test chips.

IBM's 'sub-1nm' chip is a lab milestone, not a product you'll buy soon

IBM showed a 0.7nm 'nanostack' transistor with ~100 billion transistors on a fingernail. It's real research, but the name is marketing and shipping silicon is years out.

A scan of the 86-DOS changelist from Tim Paterson's 1981 assembler printout, the kind of artifact Microsoft released under MIT on April 28.

Open Source·2 months ago

Microsoft just open-sourced 86-DOS. Tim Paterson's 45-year-old listings are now on GitHub under MIT.

Yufeng Gao and Rich Cini scanned Tim Paterson's 1981 assembler printouts. Microsoft pushed them to DOS-History/Paterson-Listings on April 28, the 45th anniversary.

IBM Quantum System One inside its glass enclosure at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center

Policy·2 months ago

Commerce will take equity in nine quantum companies. $2 billion is moving in exchange.

On May 21 NIST disclosed nine letters of intent worth $2.013B for IBM, GlobalFoundries, and seven quantum labs. Each comes with a minority federal stake.