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		Buraksr on July 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-ma... TI's fabs are mainly focused on analog, so the requirements are a bit different. IIRC we have 3 130-65nm layers for digital in our mixed signal designs which is roughly on par with a the process technology Intel used in 2005.

anfilt on July 27, 2022 [–]

The majority ICs used for products and such do not need bleeding edge node sizes.

Buraksr on July 27, 2022 | [–]

True. That is part of the reason why only 3 of maybe 30-60 layers are that small.

Analog gets some signal integrity benefits from larger transistors, and often we have fairly large fets for low rdson and high voltage tolerance.

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