Re:5/3nm Wars Begin
by imtringued on Saturday January 25, 2020 @08:01PM
(#22149703)
That has nothing to do with Moore's Law which is about the number of transistors on a chip. The process nodes are named so that halving the size of process node will result in increasing the number of transistors by 4x within the same area.
The problem with measuring physical features of a transistor is that once you change the design of the transistor multiple times [0] it no longer becomes meaningful to measure one specific dimension. As you can see the gate size barely changes but the transistor count keeps increasing drastically.
The problem with measuring physical features of a transistor is that once you change the design of the transistor multiple times [0] it no longer becomes meaningful to measure one specific dimension. As you can see the gate size barely changes but the transistor count keeps increasing drastically.
[0] https://www.hwsw.hu/kepek/hirek/2017/03/planar_finfet_gaa.jp...