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Re:TSMC and Graphcore Prepare for AI Acceleration on 3nm by mrfusion on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:34PM (#24297699)
So how big is a modern transistor? How close to together do the transistors get?

Does this mean there’s actually a lot more room to shrink things?

Re:TSMC and Graphcore Prepare for AI Acceleration on 3nm by variaga on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:13PM (#24298725)
TSMC's 5nm 'N5' process -the highest density process currently shipping- has a raw transistor density of 173 million per millimeter^2. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nm_process)

If the transistors were laid out on a square grid (they aren't - it's rectangular), each square would be 76nm on a side. This area includes the transistor itself, the contact area (to connect the transistor to wires) and the required spacing to prevent the transistors from interfering with each other.