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From TSMCs marketing material > N3 technology will offer up to 70% logic density gain, up to 15% speed improvement at the same power and up to 30% power reduct
by MobiusHorizons 4y ago
From TSMCs marketing material
> N3 technology will offer up to 70% logic density gain, up to 15% speed improvement at the same power and up to 30% power reduction at the same speed as compared with N5 technology.
That is a more modest bump than some previous nodes, but still seems worth a 6% increase in price depending on how yields shake out.
- bombcar 4y agoAll those "up tos" can sometimes add up to "actually not much". And if Apple is currently a "generation ahead" they can spend that lead-time in other ways. They've done it before out of necessity, and I wouldn't be surprised if Apple has phone features they're holding back to "gloss over" a release that doesn't really have much more CPU.