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A comment on No More Nanometers – It’s Time for New Node Naming (2020).

Re:No More Nanometers – It’s Time for New Node Naming (2020) by i6ruce on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:13AM (#26860603)
I do not understand why would anyone care about nanometers at all. There are power efficiency, performance, reliability, price/value characteristics that are more important to an average consumer than the lithography process size.
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Re:No More Nanometers – It’s Time for New Node Naming (2020) by tremon on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:20AM (#26862425)
Because the node size used to be a reliable proxy for power efficiency, performance and price characteristics. That was true for decades, until the node size became so small that the quantum effects changed the game.
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Re:No More Nanometers – It’s Time for New Node Naming (2020) by ur-whale on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:51AM (#26860866)
Because people like simple numbers.

Examples:

    - megapixels for cameras

    - MHz for CPU's (back in the days)

    - HP for cars
etc...
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