Though there has recently been another step forward with transistors being able to get under a nanometer, 0.7 nm from 2 nm to be precise, and the last time a measurement needed to go another level smaller was in 1984 when it went from 1 micrometer to 0.8 micrometers.
That 0.7 nm one marks another jump in power while being significantly more efficient, which is I guess Moore’s law living out of spite of not actually being a scientific law.
Also it’s funny this is about the 2nd or third time I’ve seen someone say “Moore’s law is dead” since that 0.7 nm process was figured out not that long ago.
Interesting! I’d always heard that the nanometer wars were mostly marketing fluff these past several years and the quoted numbers divorced from reality, but they’re claiming genuinely sub-nanometer chips. And 3d chip designs, which is equally impressive. I haven’t followed chip tech in a few years, but last I knew heat dissipation was still a huge bottleneck preventing stacked designs.
Though it’s a shame they’re focusing all that innovation towards the AI sector. Their consumer lines have been stagnant for a while now.
Intel’s nanometer-ish numbers are BS. They call their 14nm process “Intel 10”, their 10nm process “Intel 7”, their 7nm “Intel 4”, etc. As far as I know, other companies are more truthful.
Though there has recently been another step forward with transistors being able to get under a nanometer, 0.7 nm from 2 nm to be precise, and the last time a measurement needed to go another level smaller was in 1984 when it went from 1 micrometer to 0.8 micrometers.
That 0.7 nm one marks another jump in power while being significantly more efficient, which is I guess Moore’s law living out of spite of not actually being a scientific law.
Also it’s funny this is about the 2nd or third time I’ve seen someone say “Moore’s law is dead” since that 0.7 nm process was figured out not that long ago.
Interesting! I’d always heard that the nanometer wars were mostly marketing fluff these past several years and the quoted numbers divorced from reality, but they’re claiming genuinely sub-nanometer chips. And 3d chip designs, which is equally impressive. I haven’t followed chip tech in a few years, but last I knew heat dissipation was still a huge bottleneck preventing stacked designs.
Though it’s a shame they’re focusing all that innovation towards the AI sector. Their consumer lines have been stagnant for a while now.
Intel’s nanometer-ish numbers are BS. They call their 14nm process “Intel 10”, their 10nm process “Intel 7”, their 7nm “Intel 4”, etc. As far as I know, other companies are more truthful.