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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:53AM (#24131082)
Wait what? I had no idea this was a thing, can you explain?
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by ChoGGi on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:45AM (#24131465)
Ever since (I think) 28nm, companies stopped using nm as an actual gate length and changed it to a marketing size.

Edit: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node

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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by mensetmanusman on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:33PM (#24137252)
There is no standard comparison because of different architectures.
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by chasd00 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:02AM (#24131622)
that's crazy, and news to me. So now a unit of length is a marketing term. This is even more misleading than branding the word "real" so you can advertise "contains Real(tm) cheese" on food products.
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by pkaye on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @02:51PM (#24135433)
I think it comes down to what feature length you are measuring. Transistor density seems like a better measure.
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