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Re:What’s harder to find than microchips? The equipment that... by userbinator on Saturday November 06, 2021 @08:46PM (#29135339)
If you look at the lists provided by IC prototyping services, you'll see that 0.7u (700nm) is still available from ON Semi:

https://europractice-ic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Gener...

...and also happens to be one of the cheapest, at 300 euros/mm^2. This was the highest-density process in the early 90s and used for CPUs such as the 486 and Pentium.

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Re:What’s harder to find than microchips? The equipment that... by adgjlsfhk1 on Sunday November 07, 2021 @01:04AM (#29136737)
price per area isn't am especially useful metric since a smaller node gets more transistors per area for most applications.
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