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"Our 14nm delivers a logic transistor density of about 37.5 million transistors per square millimeter. Our 10nm technology delivers about 100 million transistor
by luckydude 9y ago
"Our 14nm delivers a logic transistor density of about 37.5 million transistors per square millimeter. Our 10nm technology delivers about 100 million transistors per square millimeter."
So go draw a square millimeter. For us US people, it's a little bigger than 1/32 of an inch (closer to 1/26th of an inch). If you do any woodworking, you can have a dovetail too big by that much and just wack it in. So it's sort of the allowable slop in a woodworking joint (in softwoods).
They've got 100 million transistors in that tiny amount of space? I know, it's not news, but wow, stop and think about the tech that they have to have to do the layout. Quite an accomplishment, especially considering that the transistor was invented in 1947. In 70 years we go from just having a transistor to having 100 million in a square millimeter.
Other than computer stuff, is there anything else that has seen that sort of scaling up?
- deepnotderp 9y agoThe price of genome sequencing has actually been falling at a faster than moore rate.
- kken 9y agoYes, but not for 50 years. That's how long moores law is in effect already.
- jfoutz 9y agoAlso, that first one was quite a bit bigger than 1 mm^2 [1] There's nothing for scale, but standing like that i'd guess 2 or 3 inches across, something like 800 mm^2. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor#/media/File:Replica-of-first-transistor.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor#/med...
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoMy first job out of school was at Sperry Univac in 1985. They had a lab that was a pretty big room (think maybe the size of a grocery store in the US, or maybe half that). I estimated then that the lab probably contained one transistor for every human on the planet. Now you can get that in 8 mm x 10 mm on a single die. Absolutely amazing.
- Gravityloss 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics Photovoltaic installations have also grown exponentially at roughly the same speed (very roughly about 50% per year), although starting a lot later.