Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over safety

Re:Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over... by ashtonkem on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:13PM (#23117735)

It never stopped being true, but a lot of what makes a processor faster these days is smarter layout, better branch prediction, and better microcode. Process size matters, but it’s probably less important than it was in the 1990s.

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Re:Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over... by HelloNurse on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:10PM (#23118296)

Also, there's a difference between the minimum feature size that can be fabricated (mostly a lithography challenge), the minimum size of a reliable device that works well (e.g. with enough doping atoms in the channel) and the size and shape a specific transistor needs to be for its particular requirements.

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