Motley Fool examines the impact of IBM’s recent announcement of a partnership with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to build a $100 million supercomputer:

On the face of it, the deal might not appear to be of much significance — but it is… for the better part of the past decade, [RPI] has been applying the science of nanotechnology to everything from electronics and advanced materials to the life sciences… [The supercomputer] will reduce the cost and amount of time it takes to develop new nanomaterials, and it will turbocharge RPI’s ability to design and manufacture revolutionary nanoscale devices and systems — including next-generation nanoelectronic circuits.

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