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Note that the TSMC 7nm process is similar in feature size to Intel 10nm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nanometer#7_nm_process_nod...
Strange that there's no citation for that claim.. do you have one?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There isn't any feature of the transistors taht are 7nm wide, the smallest feature IIRC is the interconnect, which is about 30n-40nm. "7nm" is marketing wankery. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process
Well that's annoying. How is anyone supposed to judge anything if they just make numbers up?
But yes, the industry needs standardized advertising practices badly.
Wow. 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.
There isn't any feature of the transistors taht are 7nm wide, the smallest feature IIRC is the interconnect, which is about 30n-40nm. "7nm" is marketing wankery. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process
Wow. 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.
There isn't any feature of the transistors taht are 7nm wide, the smallest feature IIRC is the interconnect, which is about 30n-40nm. "7nm" is marketing wankery. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process
Fun stuff. I've got a key chain with an 80186 die, and a couple of the binders from Microprocessor Forum when they had dies on the cover. The features on those chips are "huge" compared to these things. I suspect a die using one of these processes that was big enough (say 100 sq mm) would just look like a mirror with chromatic interference lines running across it. This announcement also bookends nicely with the first…
ICs have just looked like mirrors for a while now. See this shot of a 14nm Vega die on the left and 28nm Fury die on the right: https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Radeon_RX_Vega_Previ...
Fun stuff. I've got a key chain with an 80186 die, and a couple of the binders from Microprocessor Forum when they had dies on the cover. The features on those chips are "huge" compared to these things. I suspect a die using one of these processes that was big enough (say 100 sq mm) would just look like a mirror with chromatic interference lines running across it. This announcement also bookends nicely with the first…
Did any chip vendor announce 7nm chips yet? Or is this still secret?
https://www.google.com/search?q=7nm+tapeout+press+release&cl...
AMD, GPU, FPGA, etc.
Wow. 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.
There isn't any feature of the transistors taht are 7nm wide, the smallest feature IIRC is the interconnect, which is about 30n-40nm. "7nm" is marketing wankery. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process
Maybe it corresponds to the principle emission line of the light source (synchrotron?) In spectral terms, 7 nm is near the border between hard UV radiation and soft X-rays.
