Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned

Re:Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned by jjoonathan on Friday January 22, 2021 @05:56PM (#25877337)

I love the idea of having that information readily available, but I don't think it will ever be a banner spec. Three numbers is two too many and who wants "density" when you can have "MEGATRANSISTORS"? I know, I know, but marketing is what it is and I think it's better to lean into it.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned by acidbaseextract on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:05PM (#25877423)

Of course, and I agree that marketing traction matters. I should have said this is an idle hope that some of these fancier metrics get published/leaked about TSMC/Samsung/Intel processes rather than that they become the metric. I do think MT/mm^2 or whatever is a strong candidate to become the thing. "megatransistors" is an exciting word.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned by phkahler on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:39PM (#25877776)

>> "megatransistors" is an exciting word.

Not as cool as megaFonzies.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned by wombatpm on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:52PM (#25877916)

So is that going to be M as 1000^2 or M as 1024^2.

(still bitter about the whole GB vs GiB think caused by marketing people)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned by MrPatan on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:19AM (#25880876)

To be fair to marketing people, they were correct, weren't they?

Deciding that in your field you're going to redefine standard units and their abreviations is a bit lazy.

[ Parent | on HN ]