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> I'm fed up Cool. I'm excited to get another Samsung phone. Suit yourself.
I might be excited about a Samsung phone if it didn’t have a lame version of Android on it.
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It doesn’t relate to any measurement of feature size. It’s just a frustratingly meaningless marketing term.
Why do we keep using it?! It’s so unscientific that it embarrasses me that intelligent people even talk about it.
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First though, "5nm", "3nm" and so on are just marketing names. There is nothing about "5nm" that makes it "5nm" other than the company in question saying it is. Some things are smaller than 5nm on a given 5nm node, and some are larger. I cannot recall exactly what node this started to be the case (there used to be an actual definition, one for DRAM, one for logic), but it was in the past two decades and got particula…
>but it was in the past two decades and got particularly ridiculous beginning around "28nm" up to now. I wonder if that is some kind of cultural shift that is taking place that started around 2009, or if it's always been like this and I just never noticed. BMW model numbers used to more or less accurately reflect engine sizes, not anymore, it's just numbers now. 2G, 3G, 4G used to mean something, not anymore. I could…
Did they really, though?
2G was accurately labeled (in my experience), sure, but I remember when Verizon started relabeling their HSPA+ (3G) stuff as 4G in my hometown. Not even "4G LTE" (which allowed them to get away with it since it's not actually 4G), they just straight up called it 4G on my Motorola Droid Turbo. When I rooted it, I found out exactly what it was connected with and learned it was all a lie. (When I actually did experience real 4G, the speed difference was shocking.)
AT&T relabeled their 4G network as 5G fairly early on. [0] Then, Verizon decided to copy them. [1] But this wasn't a trend that started with 5G.
[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21265048/att-5g-e-mislead...
[1] https://telecoms.com/505584/verizon-told-to-stop-lying-about...
At what point does quantum tunnelling become a problem?
It already has been a problem in terms of gate leakage, although largely mitigated by material improvements. Gate leakage is the phenomenon of quantum tunneling through the gate dielectric barrier and started appearing as gate dielectrics became thinner and thinner. Gate leakage was mitigated by moving to higher k dielectrics (from silicon dioxide, SiO2, to more exotic materials that include other elements such as Ha…
Samsung has a dishonorable marketing department. 3nm is not actually 3nm. I'm fed up... OLED is superior so they had to take the path of calling theirs QLED which is actually just an LCD screen with phosphors on top of a blue backlight (and it's nothing new).
Even if you pay [€$]1000+ for one of their Smart Phones, you can look forward to:
* Uninstallable cruft, as if they were a telcom and you were on a contract and had not just handed over a grand
* ...like a confusingly-similar-looking competitor to Google Contacts that will upload your info to their servers
* GDPR? LOL
* A hard button on the side of your phone located just below the "volume down" button, easy to press accidentally, that is hard-coded and unconfigurable, that will launch their AI assistant Bixby. Don't want to use Bixby? Tough shit. Nothing you can do about it.
* Constant badgering by the phone's native notification to sign up for "Samsung Members", a social media platform. No, you can't turn that off.
* Other, similar bullshit.
3nm? These are such sketchy practices I cannot imagine it won't affect, say, their high-end TVs (they would totally monitor your house and show you advertisements).
Seriously, avoid that company. No, paying for their high-end options will not insulate you from their nonsense.
There are a few comments saying that 3nm is a marketing term and that the transistors are actually larger - how is this allowed? Isn't it misleading and deceptive?
Is transistor density the best measure of chip competitiveness these days?
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-foundry-to-produce...
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I agree calling their display tech QLED is pretty shady, and clearly just intended to confuse people. But I'm glad their high end display tech is not OLED yet, because nobody seems to have solved burn in satisfactorily yet (if you play a lot of games or use them with a PC).
I've been using an LG OLED for 5 years with an HTPC. Lots of gameplay and leaving it on all day with eg a web browser open. I haven't experienced any burn in.
Samsung has a dishonorable marketing department. 3nm is not actually 3nm. I'm fed up... OLED is superior so they had to take the path of calling theirs QLED which is actually just an LCD screen with phosphors on top of a blue backlight (and it's nothing new).
Their high-end phones have such dark patterns that I will flat-out not buy Samsung anything. Even if you pay [€$]1000+ for one of their Smart Phones, you can look forward to: * Uninstallable cruft, as if they were a telcom and you were on a contract and had not just handed over a grand * ...like a confusingly-similar-looking competitor to Google Contacts that will upload your info to their servers * GDPR? LOL * A har…
You can turn off sync. Same as Google.
Samsung software isn't worse than Apple or Google IMO.