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It doesn’t relate to any measurement of feature size. It’s just a frustratingly meaningless marketing term.
by AmericanChopper 5y ago
It doesn’t relate to any measurement of feature size. It’s just a frustratingly meaningless marketing term.
- JohnJamesRambo 5y agoWhy do we keep using it?! It’s so unscientific that it embarrasses me that intelligent people even talk about it.
- wmf 5y agoFabs have been increasing transistor performance without shrinking the size much; for example, a 22 nm FinFET has similar performance to a 14 nm planar FET so feature sizes don't tell you as much as they used to. This led fabs to invent "effective" feature sizes to convey improvements in the process.
- worrycue 5y agoIt’s basically like a version number now I suppose.