Re:TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B tr...
by jleahy on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:31AM
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The dirty secret is that you can't really make a transistor much smaller than about 30nm.
The contacted gate pitch (for all intents and purposes this is the 'size' of a transistor) actually only decreased 50% from 28nm to 7nm (from 117nm to 64nm).
The contacted gate pitch (for all intents and purposes this is the 'size' of a transistor) actually only decreased 50% from 28nm to 7nm (from 117nm to 64nm).