--- title: IBM Two-Nanometer Chip: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 description: Find out why IBM Two-Nanometer Chip is one of the best inventions of 2022 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228819/ibm-two-nanometer-chip/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-11-10T11:12:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:08:49.308Z og:title: IBM Two-Nanometer Chip: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 og:description: Find out why IBM Two-Nanometer Chip made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228819/ibm-two-nanometer-chip/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9d6d8e3ecdbf35d/698a37484ee26288bd31ac77/best-inventions-2022-nanosheet.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: IBM Two-Nanometer Chip: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: IBM Two-Nanometer Chip: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 twitter:description: Find out why IBM Two-Nanometer Chip made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9d6d8e3ecdbf35d/698a37484ee26288bd31ac77/best-inventions-2022-nanosheet.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 10, 2022 # The Smallest Chip Ever ## Video: Behind the Cover: Best Inventions 2022 [Watch (HLS stream): Behind the Cover: Best Inventions 2022](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/1ttu12CI.m3u8) (3:23)  _Published 2022-11-10. Photographer Sergiy Barchuk discusses how he brought objects to life for TIME's Best Inventions of 2022 cover._ IBM Two-Nanometer Chip by Joe Mullich  IBM Research IBM’s 2-nanometer (nm) chip technology puts 50 billion transistors, each the size of roughly five atoms, on a space no bigger than your fingernail. The landmark technology—the smallest, most powerful microchip ever developed—could quadruple the life of cell-phone batteries and slash the carbon footprint of data centers, among other things. Now the manufacturing competition is on. Samsung and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have [announced plans ](https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-says-it-will-make-ultra-advanced-2nm-chips-by-2025 "undefined")to produce the chip by 2025, and in August, the U.S. and Japan unveiled a plan to build a joint research center focused on 2-nm tech. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228819/ibm-two-nanometer-chip/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228819/ibm-two-nanometer-chip/"},"headline":"The Smallest Chip Ever","datePublished":"2022-11-10T11:12:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:08:49.308Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228819/ibm-two-nanometer-chip/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","best inventions","Best Inventions 2022"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9d6d8e3ecdbf35d/698a37484ee26288bd31ac77/best-inventions-2022-nanosheet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joe Mullich","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joe-mullich/"}],"creator":"Joe Mullich","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9d6d8e3ecdbf35d/698a37484ee26288bd31ac77/best-inventions-2022-nanosheet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228819/ibm-two-nanometer-chip/","name":"The Smallest Chip Ever"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Behind the Cover: Best Inventions 2022","description":"Photographer Sergiy Barchuk discusses how he brought objects to life for TIME's Best Inventions of 2022 cover.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/1ttu12CI/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2022-11-10T11:00:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/1ttu12CI.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228819/ibm-two-nanometer-chip/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228819/ibm-two-nanometer-chip/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```