Can’t argue with the numbers, but I bought a couple of them. Actually really liked them for their customization options, but the construction was a bit cheap and the bumpers broke really easily.

So what's going to be the next step below the nm? Are they going to say .5nm? An attometer?

I wonder how much electricity globally is consumed by needlessly overclocked GPUs.

Because the last one sold so well...

Downvote me all you want. The steam controller sold so poorly they basically gave them away for free.

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Heat is more of a materials issue. Once they hit the wall they can move to GaAs or other semiconductors.

The only reason we still use silicon is the existing infrastructure and the relative abundance of the element.

Yes

The one in Hillsboro is literally their main fab, where all the R&D and magic happens and where all the other fab will "copy exactly".

Manufacturing and invention of processes are not the same, and are different from designing the chip.

Those in the industry know what a 2nm chip means. Others don’t have the need to know.

It was an insurance company

What do you mean with “the software doesn’t work?” It runs smoothly on my pc.

My whole life I’ve wondered why they produce the chips on circular wafers like that. Are the chips around the perimeter useless?

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Once upon a time, shaves only had one blade and then, the race to add as many blades as possible started... Is a 10 blade shave better? No, but it's all marketing (my shave has 10 blades! I'm alpha af you single blade pleb)

I feel like it kind of makes sense for DDR though? Even if it's not technically correct I feel like the reasoning is pretty straightforward. I don't mind the process names either though, so maybe that's it's just because I'm used to it…

2nm transistors will not work consistently without producing mutual Electromagnetic Interference between the transistors, which (are now) too close together.

In the 2nm silicone these transistors are too close to each other & atoms will begin to electronically magnetically interact, causing false results flowing out of the transistors; making readings invalid.

5nm is the optimal size for a conventional transistor, for example look at M1 from Apple.

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What is the problem with that?

So you don’t talk to you passengers then, as you pointed out with source’s.

Given Japanese companies failed to make many successful semiconductor products in the past 20 years, I don’t have high hopes for this project.

Japan was dominated in 80-00 in high tech. But production costs is a major problem for them, given Korea then China flood the market with cheap and not too bad products in the market. Japan only have one major display manufacturer left even they invented most of the tech. Same thing for memory chips. The only semiconductor product that Japan still dominates is image sensor by Sony but the sensor don’t need to use latest chip making technology.

Also many major Japanese companies are too slow to react to market and too afraid of investment lost, but it makes sense in a way-just look at Toshiba, so they rather put money in bank than invest in new tech or manufacturing. This is kinda sad.

Help from IBM? Does that even help

Marketing triumphs over physics again!