Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Branch Education" channel.

  1. The linewidth is becoming even more abstract these days and any "3 nm process" or something should be considered marketing department speech these days. Total transistors per square millimeter is the measurement you really want. That's one metric that marketing department cannot adjust.
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  2.  @vanrex7682  I mostly agree with that. However, when Intel "10 nm" process is close to TSMC "5 nm" process, the customers will fail to understand that those are equal. With processes like "90 million transistors per square millimeter" vs "120 million transistors per square millimeter" the process scale would be accurately transmitted and we would have "bigger number is better", too.
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  3. Great video. I think it would have been nice to put those items on top of each other. That way you could have put the more modern transistor on top of a single wire of the previous tech. Now they were so far from each other that it was sometimes hard to estimate the actual difference in size.
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