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sanitation
lemmy.today
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vrek
programming.dev
vrek@programming.dev Joined: 2023-06-20 |
Nm size has been a horrible way or measurement for chips for years. |
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nutbutter
discuss.tchncs.de
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de Joined: 2023-07-11 |
Nm size has been a horrible way or measurement for chips for years.
Why? |
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beeng
discuss.tchncs.de
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de Joined: 2023-07-23 |
Why?
Hasn't really kept up with advances and now is abused in marketing material. i.e. some aren't even 2nm (classic nm measurment) even when 2nm is in the name. |
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vrek
programming.dev
vrek@programming.dev Joined: 2023-06-20 |
Why?
I'm not in the field but my understanding is the various companies measure it slightly differently because of difficulty measuring on a nm scale. Also not all transistors are the same. Plus you can do a lot of other work which makes it faster than just shrinking the transistor size. Similar to cpu being much faster today then they were in 2015 despite having a similar clock rate(maxing out at between 3.5-4.5 ghz). Stuff like improved branch prediction, better use of simd, improvements in the address translation layer. I'll try to find a article but a lot of the inner details are nit made public. |
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