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Ah. What confused me was the word “process” which typically refers to the stack of things that take a high level description of a circuit and turn it into instr
by garmaine 8y ago
Ah. What confused me was the word “process” which typically refers to the stack of things that take a high level description of a circuit and turn it into instructions for the machine to execute to make the wafer.
- MrEldritch 8y agoThe engineering involved in shrinking the gates these days is Herculean enough that Intel's 10nm and 7nm processes are genuinely distinct processes in that sense as well.
- etaoins 8y agoIn semiconductor fabrication “process” almost always refers to the manufacturing process, not the design process.