Comment by echoangle
10 hours ago
But then you would have to redo the whole layout and design of the chip right? Surely you can’t just scale the mask and manufacture the same chip at different scales and everything still works?
10 hours ago
But then you would have to redo the whole layout and design of the chip right? Surely you can’t just scale the mask and manufacture the same chip at different scales and everything still works?
Check out the Intel Quark, it was a <50mhz x86 that was resized and re-done on a smaller feature fab and runs on a watch battery (its a bios battery), a full x86 SOC!
I dont know what feats of engineering went into it, it is discontinued, but it is a very tiny x86