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Re:Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semi... by Buraksr on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:59PM (#32256011)
TI's fabs are mainly focused on analog, so the requirements are a bit different. IIRC we have 3 130-65nm layers for digital in our mixed signal designs which is roughly on par with a the process technology Intel used in 2005.
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Re:Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semi... by anfilt on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:10PM (#32256176)
The majority ICs used for products and such do not need bleeding edge node sizes.
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Re:Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semi... by Buraksr on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:17PM (#32256295)
True. That is part of the reason why only 3 of maybe 30-60 layers are that small.

Analog gets some signal integrity benefits from larger transistors, and often we have fairly large fets for low rdson and high voltage tolerance.

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