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Re:TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B tr... by civilized on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:32AM (#25277202)
Is there any rationale at all for the name? Maybe it's about how precisely things like corners can be etched, even if the smallest features are much larger than that?
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Re:TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B tr... by ebruchez on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @01:04PM (#25279254)
Don't look for a rationale. See this recent article "The Node Is Nonsense:

https://read.nxtbook.com/ieee/spectrum/spectrum_na_august_20...

It goes in depth into this topic.

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Re:TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B tr... by squeals_colder on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @02:39PM (#25280547)
I thought the change in node name was relative to the percent improvement in density, i.e 70% increase in density 5 / 1.7 ~= 3
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