The chips are down for Moore’s law

Re:The chips are down for Moore’s law by alexnewman on Thursday February 11, 2016 @04:16AM (#11079110)

"Top-of-the-line microprocessors currently have circuit features that are around 14 nanometres across, smaller than most viruses"

Yea this is not true. The 14nm or 11nm stuff from chip manufactures is more of a marketing thing. It's much more complicated than that.

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Re:The chips are down for Moore’s law by bbtn on Thursday February 11, 2016 @04:44AM (#11079198)

People think it is transistor size that is 14 nm, which is not. It is metal pitch on high density memory chips that have repetitive patterns all over the chip.

That sentence is not wrong. It looks well stated.

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Re:The chips are down for Moore’s law by dbcooper on Thursday February 11, 2016 @04:52AM (#11079229)

14nm is supposed to refer to the gate length (which may be larger than the node name).

The gate pitch of Intel's 14nm CPU process node is more like 70nm. [1]

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8367/intels-14nm-technology-in...

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Re:The chips are down for Moore’s law by creshal on Thursday February 11, 2016 @06:04AM (#11079447)

I think the last process where process name = gate length was 90nm. Ever since the naming scheme was more a historic artefact than anything else.

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