TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips
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TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips
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#2It's just stunning how they have been able to achieve 7nm features. With a 193nm wavelength laser no less.
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#3I wonder how reliable and durable 7nm chips will be. We might start to see chip failures even after a few years of use.
https://semiengineering.com/transistor-aging-intensifies-10n...
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#4Wow. I still remember being amazed when micron widths came out. 7nm is close to a miracle.
Semiconductor manufacturing improvements like this really have enabled the whole tech world improvements of the last few decades.
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#5Did any chip vendor announce 7nm chips yet? Or is this still secret?
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#6A 30% possible clock frequency increase?
That is pretty big compared to other node shrinks, isn't it?
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#7Interesting time. This is the first time TSMC leads Intel in terms of node features if I remember correctly.
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#8It's just stunning how they have been able to achieve 7nm features. With a 193nm wavelength laser no less.
7nm is really just a node name. Gate length is probably about 20nm. Still very impressive though!
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#9It's just stunning how they have been able to achieve 7nm features. With a 193nm wavelength laser no less.
Well... the article didn't say what the line width, say, actually is. It just said that the process is labeled 7nm, which doesn't necessarily correspond to any features actually being 7nm in size. It just means it's that much smaller than the previous process.
Don't get me wrong, it's still amazing, and the line widths are still going to be much less than 193 nm. I just wish they'd say what some standard feature size actually is.
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#10I have a question - why does the fab machine lithographic printing etch out a half a chip on the edge of the wafer like in the article picture. I presume the wafers are a standard 300mm size, so is it just because the designers were too lazy to remove the half chips on the edges from their mask template designs ?