Comments by "gwho" (@gwho) on "Why Every 3nm Process Node is Different" video.

  1. DTCO is a fancy term for talking to the client, and is a crutch solution. While talking to the client is still necessary, and beneficial, it can and should be reserved for edge cases and critical design and wisdom, not holding their hand through the rote basics. The fabs could have categorized and tagged each rule better as required, optional, and quantifying what the tradeoffs are for the optional ones. Then they could make all this cataloguing searchable and self-explained via a simple web app, where the chip designers can reference, search, filter, sort rules easily by tag, and the quantified tradeoffs can be presented in a straightforward manner. Then DTCO can focus on the questions that really matter, and be a source of feedback, which continually gets incorporated into improving the web app for more rules, deprecating rules, etc.
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  2. for desktop computers and other applications that don't care about size as much (unlike cell phones and tablets), why do they need to shrink it down further instead of just making the chip bigger? serious question. Why does it always have to be that 3x3 cm CPU instead of a 15x15cm? if i can get 25x the computational power with the same fab (which translates to cost), i'll take 15x15cm CPU, wouldn't you?
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  3. this video... business, technology, geopolitics, economics all rolled into one.
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