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kagoolx t1_ixgr8xe wrote

Reply to comment by Admirable_Royal_5119 in TSMC Racing to 1nm, Investing $32 Billion for Fab: Report by brohymn80

Oh man that’s disappointing. So not only are they not preparing for these chips here, but we no longer have a meaningful measure. Do you think this 1nm truly will scale performance wise as though it was actually 1nm?

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Admirable_Royal_5119 t1_ixgtdq1 wrote

I'm no expert in this field from what i know, Smaller transistor is not always be better. When you shrink transistor smaller and smaller electrons will start jumping from nodes spontaneously due to quantum tunneling thus increasing the computational error. These 1nm will not have the same power efficient of actual 1nm chips but you can increase the performance by optimising layout architecture etc. It depends on the company making it, for example Intel 10nm outperforms some 7nm amd chips

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