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Comment by ahazred8ta

2 days ago

Gates are about 30-50 nm wide, even though they're called '3nm' for marketing reasons.

Metal pitch is 26nm. That means parallel wires can be placed 2 wavelengths apart with 13.5nm light.

As The Register used to call it, these clean-sounding process nodes (15nm, 5nm, 3nm etc) are "marchitecture." Marketing architecture. Reality is much messier.

Like free range chicken.

  • You only need to live in reasonable place for that phrase to have a proper meaning, across whole market from cheapest to most expensive.

    • What is 'proper meaning'? Only a single brand of egg in my supermarket is genuinely free range per the definition supplied by our agricultural scientists (CSIRO, Australia) - less than 1500 hens per hectare. "Free range" can mean anything up to 10,000 hens per hectare.

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