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ahartmetz • last Thursday at 8:34 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

That fab unfortunately seems to be quite far from state of the art at 12 nm feature size. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Semiconductor_Manufac...


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flohofwoe • yesterday at 1:00 PM

The fab itself can still be "state of the art" even when the product isn't (Germany needs chips for its industry, not for gaming PCs or AI data centers).

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fulafel • yesterday at 1:43 PM

Current state of the art in feature sizes is 20 nm metal pitch / 45 nm gate pitch.

gregorygoc • yesterday at 1:02 PM

There will be 2nm in Ireland

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rurban • last Thursday at 10:01 AM

Uh, so they are lying to us constantly. First the said the new BOSCH fab in Dresden is for AI, with 28nm - ha!

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