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If they price it right, it could be amazing. Computing is mostly about economics. The new node sizes greatly increase the production capacity. Half the dimensio
by sitkack 6y ago
If they price it right, it could be amazing. Computing is mostly about economics. The new node sizes greatly increase the production capacity. Half the dimension in x and y gets you 4x the transistors on the same wafer. It is like making 4x the number of fabs.
It also has speed and power advantages.
I think this release is excellent news on many levels.
- Retric 6y agoIntel 10nm is really just a marketing term at this point and has nothing to do with transistor density.
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- taejavu 6y agoI know there is some truth to what you're saying, but if that really was the full story, why wouldn't it be "Intel 2nm"?
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- Retric 6y agoPresumably because people aren’t buying chips based on the node size used and they would get bad press from calling it 2nm. My guess is it simply relates to the node refreshes in the old pattern of old node / ~1.414 = new node size. With different companies picking different arbitrarily differences in nodes aka intel’s 14nm++ was better than it’s initial 10nm process. That said you can read some interesting details here: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process