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Even if we don't produce smaller circuits, we still might produce cheaper ones. There is still plenty of room to go to reduce fab costs. Especially since we bas
by jacobr1 11y ago
Even if we don't produce smaller circuits, we still might produce cheaper ones. There is still plenty of room to go to reduce fab costs. Especially since we basically replace them every few years. Consider if intel solely spent time iterating on cost. We also have made headway on power-reduction. I could see further improvements there. In aggregate I could imagine even if we don't see greater chip density we could see, say, AWS compute power/cost continuing Moore's trend for some time.
- b1661727 11y agoThose old fabs are often used for embedded chips.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoThat's true. Seeing mask sets and EDA tooling get cheap at 90nm or 65nm could open up serious possibilities. The laptop still serving me well runs a CPU done on 65nm with other chips from even older nodes.