Gates are about 30-50 nm wide, even though they're called '3nm' for marketing reasons.
replyMetal pitch is 26nm. That means parallel wires can be placed 2 wavelengths apart with 13.5nm light.
replyLike free range chicken.
replyYou only need to live in reasonable place for that phrase to have a proper meaning, across whole market from cheapest to most expensive.
replyWhat is 'proper meaning'? Only a single brand of egg in my supermarket is genuinely free range per the definition supplied by our agricultural scientists (CSIRO, Australia) - less than 1500 hens per hectare. "Free range" can mean anything up to 10,000 hens per hectare.
replyThis is about increasing output per machine via upgrades.
replysome gates are only 10-14 nm wide, thats about 50 silicon atoms!
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I still think we should have gone with average gates per square mm as a new yardstick. It would also make sense to the Numbers Go Up people.
replyIt’s going to be quite funny if they can go below 40nm in gate pitch size, because they’ll need to call it 0nm.
replyThey are moving to angstroms, hence 18A for example.
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