Re:What’s harder to find than microchips? The equipment that...
by userbinator on Saturday November 06, 2021 @10:53PM
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First, you are very likely "pad limited", the pads to connect the chip to the package are much larger than the actual active chip area.
I remember doing the maths for this a while ago, and I believe on a 22nm process you could fit an entire 486 (1.2M transistors) in the area of a single bond pad needed for the later CPUs.
I remember doing the maths for this a while ago, and I believe on a 22nm process you could fit an entire 486 (1.2M transistors) in the area of a single bond pad needed for the later CPUs.