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It's not as simple as that. You wouldn't make chip with less than a 100 million transistors on TSMC N5. Chips have not only maximal size, but minimal size as we
by terafo 5y ago
It's not as simple as that. You wouldn't make chip with less than a 100 million transistors on TSMC N5. Chips have not only maximal size, but minimal size as well. And you shouldn't forget about horrendous cost of masks. If you need a lot of very small chips for something simple you are better off using something like 28nm or older node. At the end total cost per chip is what matters for such customers, even if cost per transistor is higher. And, IIRC, cost for transistor is currently lower on N6 than on N5.