JustAnEngineer wrote:Samsung 3nm in 2022:
https://www.techpowerup.com/265751/sams ... ransistors
3nm is only ~15 silicon atoms. Really gotta wonder what that's going to mean for yields and long-term reliability.
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JustAnEngineer wrote:Samsung 3nm in 2022:
https://www.techpowerup.com/265751/sams ... ransistors
just brew it! wrote:JustAnEngineer wrote:Samsung 3nm in 2022:
https://www.techpowerup.com/265751/sams ... ransistors
3nm is only ~15 silicon atoms. Really gotta wonder what that's going to mean for yields and long-term reliability.
blastdoor wrote:just brew it! wrote:JustAnEngineer wrote:Samsung 3nm in 2022:
https://www.techpowerup.com/265751/sams ... ransistors
3nm is only ~15 silicon atoms. Really gotta wonder what that's going to mean for yields and long-term reliability.
Or maybe they mean "3nm" rather than 3nm.
AMD's demand for TSMC is expected to be at least 20,000 12-inch wafers per month
JustAnEngineer wrote:https://www.techpowerup.com/265843/huaweis-loss-amds-gain-tsmc-develops-special-5nm-nodeAMD's demand for TSMC is expected to be at least 20,000 12-inch wafers per month
JustAnEngineer wrote:More on TSMC's 3 nm process:
https://www.techpowerup.com/265991/tsmc ... millimeter
JustAnEngineer wrote:Oh come on now...
https://www.techpowerup.com/266231/digi ... ocess-node
TSMC has started working on their 2 nm process.
tfp wrote:It seems that the XXnm rating is as much marketing as the Ghz race was a few years back.
Captain Ned wrote:tfp wrote:It seems that the XXnm rating is as much marketing as the Ghz race was a few years back.
Not even close. This goes back to the stereo WPC/THD spec wars fought in the pages of Playboy and Penthouse starting in the early-mid '70s.
Captain Ned wrote:Deer camp has a well-curated collection from that era.
Captain Ned wrote:tfp wrote:It seems that the XXnm rating is as much marketing as the Ghz race was a few years back.
Not even close. This goes back to the stereo WPC/THD spec wars fought in the pages of Playboy and Penthouse starting in the early-mid '70s.
TSMC has reportedly secured orders from NVIDIA for chips based on its 7 nm and 5 nm silicon fabrication nodes. Samsung is commencing 5 nm EUV mass production within Q2-2020, and NVIDIA is expected to be one of its customers. Splitting manufacturing between TSMC and Samsung would help NVIDIA disperse any yield issue arriving from either foundry's EUV node, and give it greater bargaining power with both.
JustAnEngineer wrote:https://www.techpowerup.com/266656/tsmc-secures-orders-from-nvidia-for-7nm-and-5nm-chipsTSMC has reportedly secured orders from NVIDIA for chips based on its 7 nm and 5 nm silicon fabrication nodes. Samsung is commencing 5 nm EUV mass production within Q2-2020, and NVIDIA is expected to be one of its customers. Splitting manufacturing between TSMC and Samsung would help NVIDIA disperse any yield issue arriving from either foundry's EUV node, and give it greater bargaining power with both.
JustAnEngineer wrote:https://wccftech.com/tsmc-5nm-products-leaked-amd-zen-4-cpus-rdna3-gpus-nvidia-hopper-and-potentially-an-intel-xe-gpu/
For 2021: AMD Zen 4 CPUs, RDNA3 GPUs, NVIDIA Hopper and potentially an ‘Intel Xe’ GPU
JustAnEngineer wrote:https://www.anandtech.com/show/16028/better-yield-on-5nm-than-7nm-tsmc-update-on-defect-rates-for-n5
Defect rates for TSMC's 5 nm process have already reached a good level as they ramped high volume manufacturing.for Apple.