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Re:5/3nm Wars Begin by monocasa on Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:22PM (#22148415)
The idea is pretty closely correlated to the really high end cadence style hardware emulators. Those tend to be made out of a sea of tiny ascetic processors that only know logic ops rather than LUTs, AFAIK.

So it would seem they beat FPGAs in some niches.

I question the 80ghz number given by the grandparent though. Looking at visual 6502 you're not going to get a order of better magnitude fanout on that design.

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Re:5/3nm Wars Begin by Dylan16807 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @05:27PM (#22149001)
> Looking at visual 6502 you're not going to get a order of better magnitude fanout on that design.

Better fanout than what?

The most useful thing I could find was this old article, but it certainly suggests that the room is there to expand: https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/indium-ph...

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