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I love the idea of having that information readily available, but I don't think it will ever be a banner spec. Three numbers is two too many and who wants "dens

I love the idea of having that information readily available, but I don't think it will ever be a banner spec. Three numbers is two too many and who wants "density" when you can have "MEGATRANSISTORS"? I know, I know, but marketing is what it is and I think it's better to lean into it.

acidbaseextract 6y ago
Of course, and I agree that marketing traction matters. I should have said this is an idle hope that some of these fancier metrics get published/leaked about TSMC/Samsung/Intel processes rather than that they become the metric. I do think MT/mm^2 or whatever is a strong candidate to become the thing. "megatransistors" is an exciting word.
- phkahler 6y ago
  >> "megatransistors" is an exciting word. Not as cool as megaFonzies.
wombatpm 6y ago
So is that going to be M as 1000^2 or M as 1024^2. (still bitter about the whole GB vs GiB think caused by marketing people)
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- MrPatan 6y ago
  To be fair to marketing people, they were correct, weren't they? Deciding that in your field you're going to redefine standard units and their abreviations is a bit lazy.