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Re:TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips by fspeech on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @08:30PM (#16917853)
If you look at the SRAM bit cells, they halved in area from 28nm to 14nm, and halved again from 14nm to 7nm. This is likely due to metal interconnects or other features only halving in spacing going from 28nm process to 7nm. So the scaling almost appears to apply to only one dimension (full linear scaling of two dimensions would have quartered the cell area at each step resulting in a 16-fold total reduction). But it is still scaling nevertheless.
Re:TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips by baybal2 on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:01AM (#16919139)
Wait for 3d sram