Something I've never been able to figure out is whether our modern, deep sub-um and even nm-scale process nodes, are directly usable for anything analog. I sus

Something I've never been able to figure out is whether our modern, deep sub-um and even nm-scale process nodes, are directly usable for anything analog. I suspect that they aren't - that the noise levels are now at a point where even the simplest "gate"-like structures are only useful if used in combination with that "attraction/iteration towards a fix point" mechanism that essentially defines digital electronics (from an "analog" POV), with its inherent resilience to noise. Unfortunately, I even doubt that the question is directly answerable without the sorts of proprietary data that only a multi-billion chip fab would have in the first place.