misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoTSMC's 2nm process will reportedly get another price hike — $30,000 per wafer for latest cutting-edge techwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1113arrow-down1external-linkTSMC's 2nm process will reportedly get another price hike — $30,000 per wafer for latest cutting-edge techwww.tomshardware.commisk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down3·18 hours agoI was under the impression that anything under like 10nm was just marketing and doesn’t actually refer to transistor density in any meaningful way?
minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·17 hours agoIt is marketing and it does have meaningful connection to the litho features, but the connection is not absolute. For example Samsung’s 5nm is noticeably more power hungry than TSMC’s 5nm.
I was under the impression that anything under like 10nm was just marketing and doesn’t actually refer to transistor density in any meaningful way?
It is marketing and it does have meaningful connection to the litho features, but the connection is not absolute. For example Samsung’s 5nm is noticeably more power hungry than TSMC’s 5nm.