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>10000 Too many zeroes?
by TchoBeer 5y ago
>10000
Too many zeroes?
- slfnflctd 5y agoI thought this at first too, but after re-reading it became clear that they're saying IBM's process takes up the least room per transistor on average while Intel's takes up the most. So IBM is actually beating Apple by this metric here, however counter-intuitive that may seem.
- mkl 5y agoIBM's 2nm beating TSMC's 3nm doesn't seem counter-intuitive. If their naming systems are comparable it's exactly what you'd expect.
- slfnflctd 5y agoWell, everyone knows now that the 'X nm' naming doesn't actually mean much when looking at the whole chip, which is why we're talking about transistors per area. Also, Apple has been designing modern chips with massive production volumes for a while, and IBM... hasn't (in fact, they've mostly sold off their former fabrication capabilities). So that's why my expectations were a little different.
- hexane360 5y agoThat makes sense as well. It's not unexpected that a one-off F1 car is faster than a mass-produced Mustang.
- mkl 5y agoNo, Intel's 10nm is a bigger process, lagging behind TSMC's 5nm, so its per-transistor area is bigger.
- TchoBeer 5y agoI see, I was reading the numbers as a density (per nm^2)