Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller
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Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller
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Re: Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller
#2> The country also has 300-mm equipment purchased from AMD's fab near Dresden in the early 2000s.
That’s quite an impressive process size.
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#3> The country also has 300-mm equipment purchased from AMD's fab near Dresden in the early 2000s. That’s quite an impressive process size.
Micron (the makers of those chips) has a 90nm process fab since 2011.
Re: Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller
#4> The country also has 300-mm equipment purchased from AMD's fab near Dresden in the early 2000s. That’s quite an impressive process size.
Micron (the makers of those chips) has a 90nm process fab since 2011.
> 300-mm
It's a typo, you can't make a usable chip out of foot long transistors :)
Re: Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller
#5> The country also has 300-mm equipment purchased from AMD's fab near Dresden in the early 2000s. That’s quite an impressive process size.
Discrete transistors would be better at that point
Re: Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller
#6> The country also has 300-mm equipment purchased from AMD's fab near Dresden in the early 2000s. That’s quite an impressive process size.
It probably refers to the size of the whole wafer.
Re: Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller
#7> The country also has 300-mm equipment purchased from AMD's fab near Dresden in the early 2000s. That’s quite an impressive process size.
I think most of the "feature sizes" that Charles Babbage worked with were smaller than that.
300mm is actually a standard wafer size. I think that's what most modern fabs use now; there was some push to move to 450, but I think the major players have all determined it to be more trouble than it's worth for now. I don't keep up-to-date on these sorts of things though so maybe 450mm wafers are used for some significant products now.
That said, the wafer size doesn't really tell you anything about how advanced their lithography is.
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#8RISC-V is about to take off! https://github.com/drom/awesome-riscv
Re: Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller
#9> The country also has 300-mm equipment purchased from AMD's fab near Dresden in the early 2000s. That’s quite an impressive process size.
That's vacuum tube territory.
Re: Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller
#10In the article they say it would have a long lifespan, but being a 32bit chip wouldn't the 2038 problem affect it?