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So how does this compare to other high-end Intel chips out there where they are already are at even lower nm? What is so special about this chip?

• SXX 11y ago
  > What is so special about this chip? It's basically first real confirmation that 90nm can be produced in Russia. In past there was a lot of press and talk, but noone ever seen actual chips.
• djcapelis 11y ago
  > So how does this compare to other high-end Intel chips out there where they are already are at even lower nm? It compares poorly. There's nothing this chip can do that's special or more functional. It's just an SRAM, which is usually the first step in proving a process works and can produce something useful. They'll probably eventually use this to implement some logic which means the chips would actually do computations instead of just storing data. For embedded applications, there's a decent amount you can do with a 90nm ASIC process, but there's only a few applications that would actually make it reasonable to pay the price to build a whole fab to make them. The only thing that's special about this chip is that it's made in Russia, which means that if you're Russian, you can get a chip made in Russia. Which is something a military or government would care about, but few other people do.