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Ironically even this article is a decade behind as it depicts planar CMOS transistors. Around 2010 the industry started moving to finfets which are gates surrou
by demondemidi 3y ago
Ironically even this article is a decade behind as it depicts planar CMOS transistors. Around 2010 the industry started moving to finfets which are gates surrounded on three sides by poly. Manufacturing those structures almost destroyed Intel as the first process had their worst yields in history. Source: former Intel process engineer that got out before p1274/1276 shat the bed.
- wtallis 3y agoFrom a customer perspective, though, Intel's first FinFET chips (22nm, Ivy Bridge) were at most a few months late, and price and performance were reasonable. The next node was a bit more late and definitely underwhelming at first, and the one after that was the real disaster.