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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by tpurves on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:43PM (#16756453)
Can youbelaborate? What does cobalt have to do with the current nodes? And killer as in good or killer as in bad?
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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by deepnotderp on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:32PM (#16756958)
Sure, so Intel is using cobalt at low dimension interconnects (e.g. M0-3) because cobalt has lower resistance than copper at low dimensions due to electron mean free path issues.

The rumor is that integration of the cobalt material is what's causing yield issues at Intel for 10nm.

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