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And the reason they operate at low voltages has to do with the micro-scale these SoC transistors are separated from each other. Increase the voltage and you get
by unnouinceput 5y ago
And the reason they operate at low voltages has to do with the micro-scale these SoC transistors are separated from each other. Increase the voltage and you get a shortcut, which will render your chip useless.
- brennanpeterson 5y agoThis is true but also wrong. The transistors themselves have a specific operating voltage.
- unnouinceput 5y agoOn current technology, you are absolutely correct. But if you go and say something "let's do instead those high voltage transistors, so we can deliver to them more power" you can't, exactly because at this scale you'll get shortcuts. It's a physics limitation.
- dheera 5y ago> Increase the voltage and you get a shortcut It's possible to fill them up with goo that has a much higher dielectric breakdown than air, so I don't believe this is the reason
- unnouinceput 5y agoA transistor it has in its composition a semiconductor material. That's the whole idea behind the transistor as a programmable switch, using a gate(drain) variable intensity to drive how much it gets opened. And if you increase the voltage that semiconductor becomes a conductor instead, hence the shortcut I was talking about - goo or no goo.