Re:Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned
by 5d749d7da7d5 on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:40PM
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Should that be future-proofed and be per mm^3? I was under the impression that designs are becoming more three dimensional.
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According to the Bekenstein bound, the maximum entropy in a given region of space is proportional to the area of a surface containing that space, not its volume so to really future-proof it, we should probably go with per mm^2...
Re:Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned
by jjoonathan on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:57PM
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Maybe for memory, but I think it's too early for logic where heat transfer forces you to keep volume per surface area under control. Legitimate 3D logic will require a radically parallel compute model, probably something neural, and until we see what form that takes I think it's better to keep the metric 2D.