| ▲ | throw0101a 5 hours ago |
| So how small are individual components (e.g., transistors) nowadays? Presumably there's a lower limit: once you're a few atoms across, it seems that you can't go any smaller (?). |
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| ▲ | ahazred8ta 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Gates are about 30-50 nm wide, even though they're called '3nm' for marketing reasons. |
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| ▲ | phkahler 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Metal pitch is 26nm. That means parallel wires can be placed 2 wavelengths apart with 13.5nm light. | |
| ▲ | penguin_booze 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Like free range chicken. | | |
| ▲ | kakacik 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | You only need to live in reasonable place for that phrase to have a proper meaning, across whole market from cheapest to most expensive. |
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| ▲ | whazor 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is about increasing output per machine via upgrades. |
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| ▲ | cyptus 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| some gates are only 10-14 nm wide, thats about 50 silicon atoms! |
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| ▲ | ranger_danger 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process |
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| ▲ | hinkley 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I still think we should have gone with average gates per square mm as a new yardstick. It would also make sense to the Numbers Go Up people. | |
| ▲ | itopaloglu83 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It’s going to be quite funny if they can go below 40nm in gate pitch size, because they’ll need to call it 0nm. | | |
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