Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se...
by m0zg on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:24AM
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There's no guarantee there will ever be "3nm and beyond".
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Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se...
by huonpine on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:04AM
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Any marketers know what happens once the 1nm name is taken? Dose it go negative, go to decimals, start counting back up or just a new naming convention?
Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se...
by brnt on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:38AM
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I think we started speaking of nanometers around the 100nm point. Before that we had eg .25, .13 microns cpus. And that is of course where the microcomputer got its name, initially ICs had features of a few microns.
Of course, the angstrom being the size that it is (.1nm), makes it unlikely there ever will be another scale. Whatever is next, it won't be silicon.
Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se...
by RandomTisk on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:15AM
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I wouldn't shed any tears for the industry if some lawsuits got filed against misleading claims regarding transistor feature sizes. That probably won't happen because feature size isn't a spec requirement for anyone per se, but it would be nice to see on principle.
Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se...
by noway421 on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:17AM
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Go down to picometre. 1000pm, etc.
Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se...
by wallacoloo on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:40AM
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But 1000pm looks larger than 1nm. How about “-3 nm”?