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The feature size on chips has steadily shrunk from 10 µm for the Intel 8008 to a few nanometers nowadays. The feature size is determined by the limits of contem
by kens 2y ago
The feature size on chips has steadily shrunk from 10 µm for the Intel 8008 to a few nanometers nowadays. The feature size is determined by the limits of contemporary technology, which steadily improves as described by Moore's Law. Many different technological aspects need to improve to shrink the features, from the design techniques to the optics to the chemical processes.
- Pet_Ant 2y ago10 is 10,000 nm. "3nm" apparently has a "gate pitch" of 48 nm, that is 0.5% of the size! I don't know that "gate pitch" is the correct metric, but I do know that modern marketing nodes don't correspond to reality so this is my crude attempt at trying to bring it to physical reality. Not sure if I did it correctly.