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So how big is a modern transistor? How close to together do the transistors get? Does this mean there’s actually a lot more room to shrink things?
by mrfusion 6y ago
So how big is a modern transistor? How close to together do the transistors get?
Does this mean there’s actually a lot more room to shrink things?
- variaga 6y agoTSMC's 5nm 'N5' process -the highest density process currently shipping- has a raw transistor density of 173 million per millimeter^2. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nm_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nm_process) If the transistors were laid out on a square grid (they aren't - it's rectangular), each square would be 76nm on a side. This area includes the transistor itself, the contact area (to connect the transistor to wires) and the required spacing to prevent the transistors from interfering with each other.