Building the future of chips in the USA
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The US National Science and Technology Council announced that the Albany NanoTech Complex will be home to the new NSTC EUV Accelerator. The goal is to spur on research and development of the tools needed to produce next-generation computer chips in North America. Albany NanoTech is a facility run by NY CREATES, an organization backed by the State of New York. IBM has been a key tenant at the facility for years, and many of our biggest breakthroughs in semiconductor technology have happened at the Complex. The new EUV Accelerator will focus on building out new capabilities around High NA EUV lithography, a new process we’ve covered here before that will lead the way to semiconductors with nodes smaller than 2 nanometers.
For quantum computers to reach their full potential, it’s crucial that researchers use utility-scale quantum hardware to run large-scale simulation experiments and continue developing useful quantum algorithms. Researchers from Stony Brook University in New York have done just that. They demonstrated results from simulations of interesting quantum systems using variational quantum algorithms implemented across up to 102 qubits on IBM’s superconducting quantum computers. It’s an important step on the path towards building quantum computers that can simulate quantum systems that are entirely beyond classical methods.
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IBM AR Forum 2024: Hear from Sriram Raghavan, VP of IBM Research AI, at the 2024 IBM Analyst Relations Forum with theCUBE's David Vellante. Watch the video here.
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SUNY Chancellor King Announces 2024 SUNY-IBM AI Research Alliance Awardees: In partnership with The State University of New York, IBM and SUNY work to shape the future of AI for social good. Read more on the 14 faculty members selected as SUNY-IBM Research Alliance grant recipients! Read more here.
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IBM on Reddit: AI Models explained: Check out our thread on Reddit for an in-depth exploration of our Granite family models.
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Open-source AI: IBM Distinguished Engineer Brad Topol discussing InstructLab and IBM' open-source Granite models at the All Things Open Conference. Read more here.
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IBMer dressed up as "Hybrid Multi-cloud Architecture Powered by Containers and Red Hat" for Halloween this year — check it out here!
Highlighting new publications from IBM researchers that we liked the sound of:
What model would have made for a great costume for Halloween?
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