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Semiconductors have long been shrinking, giving us smaller and more powerful gadgets as manufacturers cram ever more transistors onto a single chip. This shrinking — a process called scaling — has been enabled, in a substantial part, by materials known as photoresists. IBM was the first company to create and deploy modern photoresists more than three decades ago — and chipmakers have used them ever since. Now, as semiconductor chips become more widely used than ever, IBM is helping lead the way once more to ensure that these devices can be manufactured in as sustainable a manner as possible. The silicon wafer pictured here houses a collection of IBM POWER10 7nm processors.

The wafer is cut into individual chips that become the “brains” behind IBM Power Systems servers. Each IBM POWER10 chip can deliver up to 3x the capacity and energy efficiency of the previous generation and up to 20x faster INT8 AI inferencing. Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM

In the next five years, we aim to help facilitate the generation of treatments to aid physicians and front-line workers in combating novel, life-threatening viruses on a larger scale than is currently possible. A combination of AI, analytics and data can potentially help with the rapid analysis of real-world medical evidence to suggest new candidates for drug repurposing and speed clinical trials. In the future, these tools may reach widespread adoption across industries, effectively becoming one of the means of rapidly responding to global, life-threatening viruses.

The convergence of emerging technologies allows us to address the discovery process in a fundamentally new way. Once labelled promising but distant, quantum computers are developing steadily and show potential to simulate complex molecules on the fly, accurately and rapidly predicting the outcome of chemical reactions and helping us discover entirely new classes of materials.

Photo taken at 2018 ASCE (Credit: Graham Carlow)

The convergence of emerging technologies allows us to address the discovery process in a fundamentally new way. AI and quantum will increasingly combine with rapidly-advancing high-performance classical computers as a platform for scientific discovery.

The IBM-built Summit supercomputer pictured here is the world's smartest and most powerful supercomputer. (Photo Credit: ORNL)

IBM designed an approach to accelerate material discovery where AI is a key component across the entire chain of the material discovery process. This includes its cloud-powered chemistry lab RoboRXN, which allows researchers to create new materials by predicting the outcome of chemical reactions. Since earlier this year IBM scientists around the world are using RoboRXN to synthesize materials for carbon capture, photoresists and antivirals. It will soon go to work generating materials for nitrogen fixation.

The hybrid cloud will enable a flexible infrastructure of emerging technologies to supercharge the discovery of materials, some of which we haven’t imagined yet.

Inside the IBM Cloud in Dallas, Texas. (Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM)

IBM Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna (left) and Director of IBM Research Dario Gil are pictured with a 10-foot-tall and 6-foot-wide "super-fridge,” a dilution refrigerator larger than any commercially available. The “super-fridge” is being custom built by IBM to effectively support quantum systems as they scale to the thousands and eventually million-plus qubit systems of the future that will be capable of solving problems out of reach of today’s most powerful supercomputers (Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM)

IBM Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna (left) and Director of IBM Research Dario Gil are pictured with a 10-foot-tall and 6-foot-wide "super-fridge,” a dilution refrigerator larger than any commercially available. The “super-fridge” is being custom built by IBM to effectively support quantum systems as they scale to the thousands and eventually million-plus qubit systems of the future that will be capable of solving problems out of reach of today’s most powerful supercomputers (Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM)

:IBM Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna (left) and Director of IBM Research Dario Gil are pictured with a 10-foot-tall and 6-foot-wide "super-fridge,” a dilution refrigerator larger than any commercially available. The “super-fridge” is being custom built by IBM to effectively support quantum systems as they scale to the thousands and eventually million-plus qubit systems of the future that will be capable of solving problems out of reach of today’s most powerful supercomputers.
Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM

Members of the IBM Quantum team at work investigating how to control increasingly large systems of qubits for long enough, and with few enough errors, to run the complex calculations required by future quantum applications.
Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM

IBM Quantum Hummingbird is a 65-qubit processor available on the IBM Cloud for members of the IBM Q Network. Quantum processors rely on the mathematics of elementary particles in order to expand computational capabilities, running quantum circuits rather than the logic circuits of digital computers.
Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM

A look at IBM’s roadmap to advance quantum computers from today’s noisy, small-scale devices to larger, more advance quantum systems of the future.
Credit: StoryTK for IBM

IBM Watson Assistant helps communicate registration and absentee ballot procedures to Idaho citizens (credit: IBM)

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Artie is short for Artemis and Artificial Intelligence. He's a stowaway octopus hitching a ride on the Mayflower Autonomous Ship and, because he has seven arms, he's technically a septopus. He can be asked questions about the ship, the ocean, or about himself on mas400.com

Artie is short for Artemis and Artificial Intelligence. He's a stowaway octopus hitching a ride on the Mayflower Autonomous Ship and, because he has seven arms, he's technically a septopus. He can be asked questions about the ship, the ocean, or about himself on mas400.com

Artie is short for Artemis and Artificial Intelligence. He's a stowaway octopus hitching a ride on the Mayflower Autonomous Ship and, because he has seven arms, he's technically a septopus. He can be asked questions about the ship, the ocean, or about himself on mas400.com

Artie is short for Artemis and Artificial Intelligence. He's a stowaway octopus hitching a ride on the Mayflower Autonomous Ship and, because he has seven arms, he's technically a septopus. He can be asked questions about the ship, the ocean, or about himself on mas400.com

Artie is short for Artemis and Artificial Intelligence. He's a stowaway octopus hitching a ride on the Mayflower Autonomous Ship and, because he has seven arms, he's technically a septopus. He can be asked questions about the ship, the ocean, or about himself on mas400.com

Artie is short for Artemis and Artificial Intelligence. He's a stowaway octopus hitching a ride on the Mayflower Autonomous Ship and, because he has seven arms, he's technically a septopus. He can be asked questions about the ship, the ocean, or about himself on mas400.com