Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Breakthrough in Chip Manufacturing - x40 times faster 🔥" video.

Manufacturing transistor design is going to need a change. Most people seem to actually believe that transistors are actually at 2nm in scale when in fact they are about 18000 nm square. And are about 90000nm cubic.
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@dumdumdumdum8804 The transistors are nowhere near 3nm in size. Feature sizes are at 3nm but that is not exactly the same. Those feature sizes may actually have reached their limits but that does not mean the transistors cannot get smaller so that more can be put on the integrated circuits.
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Advanced take money. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot expect it to be cheap and then for their to be advances.
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When the chips get large clock speeds then become an issue as does impedance (resistance). The level of current that those systems use is very small so it means errors start to creep in so it would mean corrections would need to be applied which defeats the purpose of having lots of transistors. The thing is that we are nowhere near those size scales that would cause those types of problems in terms of complex physics. There are engineering challenges and it will not be a simple walk forward.
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There is a lot of nonsense out there and most people are getting caught up in marketing jargon. Transistors are nowhere near as small as it is being made out by the media. A typical integrated transistor is about 90000 nm cubic and about 18000 nm square. The key with understanding the 2nm marketing is that it really is in relation to certain feature sizes not the whole size of the transistor. Moore's law is about how many transistors can be put on an integrated circuit and if you view it from a square size point of view there is a lot more room down there to put more transistors on the circuits. But even leaving that out there is nothing stopping the circuits from getting larger. Clock speeds at the moment would be a limiting factor to large sized integrated circuits but we can only assume that clock speeds with new materials down the line will lead to a greater number of transistors.
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The problem comes back to the fact that integrated circuits as an industry is US based. That is the space of where all the innovation, design and function manufacturing comes from. Companies like ASML and TSMC are sponsored by US industry and as such given the licence to then produce those designs. It is possible that Europe builds plants but they will be directed by the US.
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