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applfanboysbgontoday at 5:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

For anyone who needs it, a friendly reminder that CPU nm marketing is a complete fabrication and the physical size of transistors has zero relation to the marketing claims. These are not, in fact, physically sub 1 nm, despite the bombastic claims.


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lp4v4ntoday at 5:57 PM

>These are not, in fact, physically sub 1 nm, despite the bombastic claims.

Why? What's their real size?

Not doubting you, just trying to understand and also trying to assess how exaggerated the marketing is.

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wmftoday at 5:52 PM

The marketing nm better represent the density and performance of the transistors than the actual feature size, especially in this case.

micwtoday at 5:38 PM

So the title should be corrected. The did not debut sub nm chips at all.

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