TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips

Re:TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips by elihu on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:09PM (#16917468)

I think bits of SRAM per unit of area is a benchmark that some people use, as it corresponds to something that's meaningful and measurable.

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Re:TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips by astrodust on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:18AM (#16918599)

The problem is even that is flawed as things are going three dimensional.

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Re:TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips by indiv0 on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @08:03AM (#16920708)

So just start measuring in bits of SRAM per unit of volume?

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Re:TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips by kkmx on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:48PM (#16917678)

That's a problematic metric as well because we don't know how much area the assist circuit takes up. Modern high-density SRAM cells cannot operate as is, they need an assist circuit to compensate for variations. For example for Intel's 10nm SRAM, they claim 77% area effiency (https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/525/iedm-2017-isscc-2018-inte...). But without those values, just bits/mm2 or so is problematic.

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