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TSMC demos its first 2nm chips to Apple, mass production slated for 2025
- tester756 3y agoThere's very important race in chips industry happening right now and is expected to end in 2025 Will US retake semico node leadership or TSMC will continue to be #1?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Will US retake semico node leadership or TSMC will continue to be #1? Who is even remotely nipping at TSMC's heels at their scale?
- fiftyfifty 3y agoSamsung/Qualcomm
- asia92 3y agoSamsung is Korean and Qualcomm is fabless
- airgapstopgap 3y agoIntel aims to.
- pjs_ 3y agoI think the US will not retake semico node leadership.
- ksec 3y agoExpected to end in 2025? Why would it "end"? And what is Node Leadership? And how to you define Number 1? By Tech, by volume, by revenue or by profits?
- mayoff 3y agoWhat’s interesting to me is how big the steps in process node sizes are. I thought the 5nm to 3nm step was huge—it’s a 40% reduction! And 3nm to 2nm is similar—a 33% reduction. But then I looked at wikipedia’s list of process node sizes and, well, they’ve all been 30% to 50% over more than five decades. Which is of course Moore’s law, but I figured there would be more, smaller steps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_scale_examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_scale_ex...
- prng2021 3y ago"The term "3 nanometer" has no relation to any actual physical feature (such as gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch) of the transistors. According to the projections contained in the 2021 update of the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems published by IEEE Standards Association Industry Connection, a 3 nm node is expected to have a contacted gate pitch of 48 nanometers and a tightest metal pitch of 24 nanometers" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_nm_process https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_nm_process
- PrayagBhakar 3y agoWhy is it called 3nm then?
- fsociety 3y agoIt is defined by the smallest physical feature on the transistor - regardless of what that feature is. It used to be defined by the size of gate iirc - that is why people say it has no relation to the physical features.
- sim7c00 3y agosuper interesting info thanks. i was still on the gate size club :/
- iAMkenough 3y agoWe're blowing right past the 3.14nm step
- agumonkey 3y agoI remember when big names in semi industry were laughing on the floor when asked about the possibility of sub 10nm ICs. And now I wonder what kind of physics will be investigated for sub nanometer electronics .. spin ? neutronics ? photonics ?
- vikramkr 3y agoAre these chips actually what was being envisioned when folks were talking about sub 10nm back then in terms of the real feature sizes and performance?