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aren't all transistor or gates or whatever fundamentally discrete entities?
by ralusek 4y ago
aren't all transistor or gates or whatever fundamentally discrete entities?
- Nevermark 4y agoI think maybe "Floats" and "Ints" in this case are not referring to numerical computation. Perhaps not the best terminology. The point being, that typical components are organized on a 2D wafer's surface, aligned with the 2D's surfaces two axes. Transistors are not normally oriented with arbitrary rotations in the 0-360 range of possible rotations. One reason for this alignment, is that a consistent angle between transistor layout and the silicon's preferred crystalline plane direction, allows for control of material stress and device electron mobility. That would hold even stronger for 3D structures. Transisters are still likely to oriented in exactly the same way on the 2D surface of each wafer. Not oriented to any of three possible 2D grid orientations of a 3D grid (think: the three 2D surfaces that come together at a corner of a cube). And certainly not oriented with arbitrary rotations across all three dimensions.