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nsteel on Feb 22, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple orders entire supply of TSMC's 3nm chips for...

Have you seen the 3nm SRAM scaling? It's really depressing. It won't bother CPUs too much but other devices are going to struggle to scale.

hajile on Feb 23, 2023 [–]

N3 scaling? There's literally zero scaling.

N3 is a stop-gap as TSMC is behind on their N2 GAA process. It's not so different from Intel's 14nm++++++ where it was dramatically better than before, but still not enough.

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