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A comment on Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs. Parent comment

Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by nsteel on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:07AM (#34897737)
Have you seen the 3nm SRAM scaling? It's really depressing. It won't bother CPUs too much but other devices are going to struggle to scale.
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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by hajile on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:05PM (#34906208)
N3 scaling? There's literally zero scaling.

N3 is a stop-gap as TSMC is behind on their N2 GAA process. It's not so different from Intel's 14nm++++++ where it was dramatically better than before, but still not enough.

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