Re: 38 Mb/mm^2 SRAM

On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:36:23 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

On 10/31/24 16:01, Sylvia Else wrote:

On 31-Oct-24 8:46 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

SRAM scaling isn't dead after all — TSMC's 2nm process tech claims
major improvements
 
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/sram-scaling-isnt-dead-after-all-tsmcs-2nm-process-tech-claims-major-improvements#main
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gate all around tech...
  38 Mb/mm^2
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If my arithmetic is right, there are about 50 atoms of silicon per cubic
nanometre. Surely we're approaching the limits of this.
 
Sylvia.

Some day we'll hit the limit. That won't be a disaster.

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The stated '2nm process' has little to do with the actual size
of features on the chip. It has become a sales argument rather
than the true size of something.
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Jeroen Belleman

But two is still better than 50. Probably.