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[-] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

3 nanometer

That’s a silicon lattice just six atoms thick. What a time to be alive!

[-] BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Nanometers have actually been a marker of generation for quite a while. 3nm is actually 24. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_nm_process

[-] Oderus@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Intel does it and it's annoying. 7mm lithography is actually 10nm. No idea how they get away with false advertising.

[-] A2PKXG@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

If they do 10nm++++ people also get angry.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Maybe use anything other than nm then?

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That seems... Illegal. Much the same as selling a "foot long" Sub or Hotdog which is only 11".

At the very least it's misleading.

[-] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Wow, I had no clue. TIL

[-] smakas@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

From Wikipedia: The term "3 nanometer" has no relation to any actual physical feature (such as gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch) of the transistors.

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