I believe you failed to mention that IBM colaborated with AMD on this one. As anyone knowledgable in the industry knows, it all starts with an SRAM. ;) This tech is about 3-4 years away from becoming a reality in the CPU world. Let's see how intel responds to this considering that they are a bit behind in immersion lithography which, by the way, they will need as they move to 32nm and to 22nm.

Cheers!

Huh, its true that a nanometre is one billionth (1E-9) . but that would be nm
Not um which would be (1E-6)m.

Basically one millionth.

IBM is notorious for responding to competitors announcements by announcing that they are ahead. None of these products ever see the light of day, however. It's just a ploy to keep their customers from buying their competitors products on the promise of something better from IBM. Let's wait and see who actually ships 22nm chips first.

IBM announces what exactly . Didn't IBM announce High K and metal gates for 45nm a year ago. SO where is it?

So is this new 22nm on old tech or new? Hi. K /metal gates . Without every making such a chip @ 45nm.@ 32 nm . 

IBM is goodwith software but leave much to be desired in so far as hardware and fabbing goes.