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> The country also has 300-mm equipment purchased from AMD's fab near Dresden in the early 2000s. That’s quite an impressive process size.
by Hackbraten 5y ago
> The country also has 300-mm equipment purchased from AMD's fab near Dresden in the early 2000s.
That’s quite an impressive process size.
- chupasaurus 5y agoMicron (the makers of those chips) has a 90nm process fab since 2011.
- bigdict 5y ago> 300-mm It's a typo, you can't make a usable chip out of foot long transistors :)
- CraftThatBlock 5y agoThe 300mm refers to the wafer size AFAIK
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoThe article mentions Mikron. Micron seems to be the US company that we might be familiar with. I guess they're different companies
- chupasaurus 5y agoTransliteration things.
- rubatuga 5y agoDiscrete transistors would be better at that point
- jepler 5y agoIt probably refers to the size of the whole wafer.
- elihu 5y agoI think most of the "feature sizes" that Charles Babbage worked with were smaller than that. 300mm is actually a standard wafer size. I think that's what most modern fabs use now; there was some push to move to 450, but I think the major players have all determined it to be more trouble than it's worth for now. I don't keep up-to-date on these sorts of things though so maybe 450mm wafers are used for some significant products now. That said, the wafer size doesn't really tell you anything about how advanced their lithography is.
- mhh__ 5y ago650 tonnes of difference engine ought to be enough for anyone.
- tantony 5y agoThat's vacuum tube territory.