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minus-squareMooseBoys@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down4·edit-21 year ago 3 nanometer That’s a silicon lattice just six atoms thick. What a time to be alive!
minus-squareBetaDoggo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40arrow-down1·1 year agoNanometers have actually been a marker of generation for quite a while. 3nm is actually 24. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_nm_process
minus-squareOderus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agoIntel does it and it’s annoying. 7mm lithography is actually 10nm. No idea how they get away with false advertising.
minus-squareDoubletwist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoThat seems… Illegal. Much the same as selling a “foot long” Sub or Hotdog which is only 11". At the very least it’s misleading.
minus-squaresmakas@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year agoFrom 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.
That’s a silicon lattice just six atoms thick. What a time to be alive!
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
Intel does it and it’s annoying. 7mm lithography is actually 10nm. No idea how they get away with false advertising.
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.
Wow, I had no clue. TIL
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.