• Forester@yiffit.net
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    6 months ago

    The 350 nanometer process is a level of semiconductor process technology that was reached in the 1995–1996 timeframe

    The new stuff is 3nm

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      350 nm is massive and ancient relative to new processes, but the name of a new process stopped physically meaning anything a while ago. for instance, the 3 nm process smallest distance between traces is only 24 nm.

      now the industry just names a new process when enough techniques for improving performance (without much actual size difference) exist.

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        6 months ago

        breaking taps is very impressive, but sam zeloof made it quite a bit further, he made his own packaged IC. now he runs a startup called atomic semi, that is trying to use electron beam lithography for prototyping.

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        Not a guide missile with any kind of scrambling necessary to not get obliterated by current DoD tech. When it comes to realtime, clock-rate is everything.