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It's usually not technical or capacity usually it's the whole ecosystem surrounding 14, 7, 5nm and lower ecosystems that makes it not really profitable. The ini
by dragonelite 5y ago
It's usually not technical or capacity usually it's the whole ecosystem surrounding 14, 7, 5nm and lower ecosystems that makes it not really profitable. The initial costs grows exponentially. SOC, CPU and GPU might be one of the few consumer goods the economics work.
- MrBuddyCasino 5y ago> The initial costs grows exponentially. I understand that, but is this unavoidable? After all, the old designs don't need the precision of the advanced node, couldn't they (automatically?) translate their existing coarse designs and maybe produce masks more cheaply because a 40nm design doesn't need to be as perfect as a 7nm one? I'm sure this is nonsense otherwise they would have done that already, I'm just interested in why.
- dragonelite 5y agoIm not a expert or even knowledgable but i was familiar with this image: https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/nano3.png https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/nano3... It's probably that the software and extras investment is not worth it right now.