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Re:TSMC officially begins 5 nm production by AnimalMuppet on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:36PM (#23608239)
> RTX 3080 - 45b transistors (2020)

That's just... insane. That's five transistors for every person on the planet. In 700 mm2.

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Re:TSMC officially begins 5 nm production by iso8859-1 on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:19PM (#23609306)
Why does it make sense to compare it with the world population?
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Re:TSMC officially begins 5 nm production by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:02AM (#23609799)
It doesn't, of course, except in the sense of "that's something that we know is a Really Big Number".

[Edit: And a number that people have some intuition of how big it is.]

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