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Some technical people plain refuse to read technical sites about hardware and prefer to read marketing aimed at completely non technical people. Read https://en
by wolf550e 5y ago
Some technical people plain refuse to read technical sites about hardware and prefer to read marketing aimed at completely non technical people. Read https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/5_nm_lithography_process https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/5_nm_lithography_process
- rstuart4133 5y agoI love this from that page: > The term "5 nm" is simply a commercial name for a generation of a certain size and its technology, and does not represent any geometry of the transistor. And I learnt something new: it seems like MTr/mm² is the metric in use now. I wonder if marketing will find a way to co-opt that?
- wolf550e 5y agoThe problem with "density" is that designers use power optimized transistors for some things and speed optimized transistors for other things, on the same manufacturing process. Also, the quality of standard cell libraries matters, kinda like the quality of the compiler affects the SPEC score of a chip.