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SkyJuice
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SkyJuice writes Angstronomics, a personal blog at angstronomics.com about hardware and business. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on Intel's 1.8nm and 2nm tape-outs. A commenter uses it to discuss how transistor density figures for these process nodes compare with real-world numbers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Engineering and Economic insights on the Semiconductor Industry as we head toward the Angstrom Era, from Products to Processes and Profits.
What Hacker News says?
Even the density figures are mostly lies. For example TSMCs N5 is closer to 134MTr/mm2 in the real world[1]. It can also depend on the chip design itself. Some designs may scale better than others because not all transistors get the same density improvement from new nodes. Ultimately simple metrics for predicting performance are sort of breaking down at the scale these chips are currently being manufactured at. For…
Comment linking /p/the-truth-of-tsmc-5nm
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