Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "The Gate-All-Around Transistor is Coming" video.

  1. Because you're a nerd like the rest of us.
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  2. There are many MANY semiconductor technologies that were proven in the lab several decades before they became commercially viable. One thing is to do it. Another thing is to do it with such low defect density that you can build anything useful with it. And another thing, yet again, is to be able to do that at several hundred wafers per hour with a method that can be "copy/pasted" to many production lines spanning several fabs.
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  3. If you like being presented with math problems that seriously bake your noodle for several hours before you finally crack it: Do it! If you hate the problem solving part and just want to get to the dopamine rush, from getting the solution, quickly.... keep playing computer games.
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  4. Uh... that was a highly entertaining, but also actually accurate, way of looking at it. Thanks for the chuckle!
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  5. They do... but they have no high profile customers making anything really cool to point to yet. And that's not the first time Samsung Foundry has been in this boat: Their fabs claim to have the best thing since sliced bread but Samsung Products is having their flagship chips produced.... by TSMC...
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  6.  @aekue6491  I work for a sub contractor for a big international defence contractor. We have long since been briefed that porting existing GAA designs to BPD-GAA will be, and I quote, "a largely automated process for embedded memory and gate logic, but will require substantial consideration and planning ahead of time for analog circuits". Since we work almost exclusively in the boundary layer between analog and digital (such is the nature of real-time signal analysis and shaping) we are currently "a little bit freaked out" as we are in mid-stage design of a GAA based solution that would ideally be finalised and rolled out as BPD-GAA, as that offers vastly superior noise characteristics. However, we are only now starting to get the builtin points on what to account for early to facilitate a reasonably straight forward porting process. Everything is still tightly under NDA from "the big three" but from the gossip I hear the situation is largely identical everywhere: The EDA tools will a breeze for the logic folks (CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, PLCs, FPGAs, etc, etc) but us analog folks (memory controllers, radio spectrum technologies, PCIe/CXL, optic signal modulation, etc, etc) will be the whipping boys as usual. We generally only get good EDA automation and integration of a node once it is no longer relevant for us (aka, once it's mature and cheap enough to make bulk crap products on like wireless doorbells and fridges and what have you). I hope that satisfies your curiosity, as I can't really divulge anything that is more specific than this.
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  7.  @wokeupina  If math is like a natural second language to you, then by all means, pursue a STEM career.
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  8.  @johndoh5182  Sounds like Samsung allright. They also touted having "26Gbps GDDR6 memory that rivals even base spec GDDR7X memory"... but after 9 month the status on their web page is still "sampling" which means they do, in fact, not have it in volume production.
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