Re:5/3nm Wars Begin
by Dylan16807 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @05:19PM
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> Although FPGAs certainly can't touch gigahertz+ range yet. Even 500 MHz is... challenging.
It's a relative difference though, that depends on what material you're building the circuit in. If you can build an FPGA to run at 1/10th the speed of a 6502, then with a sufficiently expensive process you get a tradeoff between a very weak 80GHz processor and a customizable 8GHz circuit.
It's a relative difference though, that depends on what material you're building the circuit in. If you can build an FPGA to run at 1/10th the speed of a 6502, then with a sufficiently expensive process you get a tradeoff between a very weak 80GHz processor and a customizable 8GHz circuit.