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Capt_morgan72 t1_ixgp3r2 wrote
We’re not. This one Dutch company is. Funny the title says racing. ASML is so far past everyone else it’s not even fair.
Pretty much any one making anything smaller than 10nm chips is using Dutch technology. That’s why them not signing on to the sanctions on China are such a huge deal. China is about 8-10 years behind Taiwan in chip technology while having access to ASML tech.
If they are sanctioned of that tech it will further extend the west technology superiority by a margin of 5-10 more or even more years seeing as 1nm is a gunna be a thing.
Edit: To add to this the US at the moment if deprived of Taiwan would be infinitely further behind as we have almost no domestic production of chips and instead rely on South Korea taiwan and japan for near 100% of our chip production. But once again. Using Dutch tech.
Edit: ASML
Exist50 t1_ixgq37s wrote
ASML is not a fab. They make one piece of equipment that fabs use. It's a very important piece, sure, but that's like calling a wheat farmer a baker.
RayseBraize t1_ixgqvr8 wrote
As someone who is currently on site at a fab surround by ASML and 5 other tools from various manufacturers, this gave me a good laugh
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VictorVogel t1_ixgycu2 wrote
> a very important piece
It is the only piece that just doesn't have any competition at close to the same level.
Exist50 t1_ixhtrwp wrote
Not the only if you go further up the chain. But regardless, the lithography machine does not make a node alone.
Capt_morgan72 t1_ixgrklj wrote
No they are the ones making fab possible is what I meant. Much like the farmer.
JimMarch t1_ixhqcta wrote
Those Taiwanese chip plants are the reason the United States Navy had a lot of others are going to go all in protecting Taiwan if China gets jumpy.
Any Chinese invasion is likely to take out the chip plants which sets the world into it 5 to 10 year recession, China included. And if China does take the chip plants intact and is able to operate them without the expats working in them, or captures them and forces them to work, China then has a springboard for unlimited economic warfare against pretty much anybody due to their dominant chip Monopoly at that point.
Those chip plants are protecting Taiwan. And they're way smart enough to know it.
Exist50 t1_ixiaci6 wrote
You pretty much only hear this on Reddit.
JimMarch t1_ixib02v wrote
You think I'm wrong?
US policy is to be unclear on whether or not we would back Taiwan in a fight with China if China attacks. If the US population understood that any China attack would require a US response due to how critical Taiwan is to the world economy via those chip plants, it would change the voters perception of US foreign policy.
For some reason this isn't being talked about on the mainstream media. It might be part of an effort to prevent a Chinese attack? I have no idea. But something damn weird is going on.
The importance of those Taiwanese chip fabs to the world economy is absolutely obvious to anybody paying attention.
Exist50 t1_ixigd9q wrote
From its geographic location alone, the US has had a strategic interest in Taiwan since long before TSMC became the dominant foundry. Nor is TSMC's dominance in that area assured. Not even the most hawkish of pundits seem to think China could realistically invade Taiwan for at least a decade, and that's just considering the logistic feasibility. A decade is an eternity in tech, and TSMC is not so far ahead of Samsung or Intel to be unassailable.
Obviously, yes, if TSMC were to be razed, it would have very significant global economic affects. But people act like it would set the world back 15 years, which is just absurd.
JimMarch t1_ixigjaq wrote
Not 15 years, no. But five at least.
Stroomschok t1_ixhh182 wrote
>China is about 8-10 years behind Taiwan in chip technology while having access to ASML tech.
Only their DUV-machines. ASML isn't selling their more advanced EUV-machines to China. Without those, the year gap becomes a lot bigger. I've seen estimates that it would take China 10 years to get into EUV themselves but considering how much EUV isn't just a technological achiement but also one in exceptional management that enabled it, it will take China probably a lot longer to emulate.
Exist50 t1_ixia8z8 wrote
ASML's CEO himself said he expects it would take China about a decade to replace them.
Stroomschok t1_ixitdyu wrote
Peter Wennink a typical modest Dutchman :)
Also he said 15 years. But pretty sure he was still low-balling it in that interview. Read up on why ASML succeeded in EUV while Canon for instance did not. Getting the technology is only part of puzzle and some of those other required pieces are quite difficult for China due to cultural differences and the increasing international isolation.
Exist50 t1_ixjjl9d wrote
Yes, thanks for the correction. Though that was a year and a half ago ;).
Article for anyone looking for a source: https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-tech-sovereignty-china-peter-wennink-asml/
TunaFishManwich t1_ixixby1 wrote
And think of where the west will be in that 10 years.
Exist50 t1_ixj4dsx wrote
Replace them is inclusive of that.
randomName77777777 t1_ixg7wsg wrote
It all happens so fast
LiliNotACult t1_ixgcgdu wrote
climate change peeking in through the window
dolleauty t1_ixgp0zn wrote
3C Spaghett
crypticSyd t1_ixgmfes wrote
Is it really 1nm though or is it just a marketing thing?
sirbruce t1_ixgzkko wrote
It's a marketing thing. Process size used to be approximately the same as gate length, but that hasn't been true since 22nm (with a gate length around 25nm). 2nm has a gate length of around 12nm. 1nm process gate length is unknown but unlikely to be much smaller than 10nm.
tester989chromeos t1_ixinaxf wrote
What gate length of apple m1 silicon
sirbruce t1_ixk80bn wrote
> What gate length of apple m1 silicon
It's 5nm process, but that equates to a gate length of 16nm to 20nm I believe.
DiplomatikEmunetey t1_ixjpi35 wrote
Apple M1 is 5nm.
venom8599 t1_ixjr9g8 wrote
Specifically it's built on a TSMC 5nm process.
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Shoddy_Reception6825 t1_ixg614m wrote
If I was China that TSMC looks better by the day on that island off coast of China especially after being shut out off from US “high technology” from on going decoupling.
Pandatotheface t1_ixg6vla wrote
Yeah, we're locking them out of future changing tech that's almost entirely made by the island just off their coast we don't want them to attack, that they've politically laid claim to forever and have been winding up to take over any day now for the past 30 years.
I feel like we're forcing their hand into a conflict over Taiwan.
Zukiff t1_ixg8kws wrote
There is a group of political elites within the US who feels since the confrontation with China is inevitable, its better to do it sooner when they still have the advantage than drag this out since China is swiftly catching up. The Russian failure in Ukraine only embolden those with this view.
Recent moves by the US to force TSMC to move to America even when the founder of Tsmc have said publicly many times that its not profitable for them to produce chips in the US, planning to destroy TSMC facilities in Taiwan and drawing up plans to evacuate up to 1000 tech experts from Taiwan are just examples of how the US is getting ready should the conflict happen(I followed all of those on Taiwanese political shows but you can Google for articles on what I just mentioned although some maybe in Chinese)
the_other_brand t1_ixgdh58 wrote
> its better to do it sooner when they still have the advantage than drag this out since China is swiftly catching up.
China isn't swiftly catching up though, but they will approach their peak military power around 2028 due to their horrible demographics caused by the One Child Policy.
After 2028 it could be decades before they are that strong again even accounting for better technology.
Be_quiet_Im_thinking t1_ixgwd63 wrote
They are other ways to get more military power besides having a lot of young people.
the_other_brand t1_ixhj3ws wrote
It's not just about manpower for their military. Their demographics are also going to ruin their economy, giving them less tax revenue that can be used for military expenditures.
Capt_morgan72 t1_ixgps1j wrote
And that’s if you believe their inflated census reports. More realistic reports from outside sources think 2020 may of been peak time and also that around that time was when India actually surpassed China in population.
Zukiff t1_ixgf06r wrote
Not sure what universe you live in. Back in the 90s, the Americans can scare off the Chinese with 2 aircraft carriers. Today, the Americans have already assess they are unable to defeat the Chinese in the Taiwan straits.
>In 2018 and 2020, two other war games showed the same results with China targeting Guam. The 2018 war game revealed that the US military will lose fast if it doesn’t change course considering the Chinese advancement in military technology and missiles.
>“After the 2018 war game, I distinctly remember one of our gurus of war gaming standing in front of the Air Force secretary and chief of staff and telling them that we should never play this war game scenario [of a Chinese attack on Taiwan] again because we know what is going to happen,” Lieutenant General S Clinton Hinote, deputy chief of staff for strategy, integration and requirements, United States Air Force (USAF), told Yahoo News in an exclusive interview in March 2021.
In some cases the Chinese military are far more affable than the Americans. If that's not swiftly catching up I don't know what is.
>The head of defence contractor Raytheon has said the US is years behind China in its pursuit of hypersonic weapons which can bob and weave through the atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound.
There's a reason why they are pulling most of their more advanced unit back to Guam
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Zukiff t1_ixgjwgl wrote
The difference here is not just fancy toys. Numbers alone are overwhelming. The Chinese Navy is already bigger in terms of number of ships vs the US navy. Since the Americans cannot bring their entire navy to Asia just to defend Taiwan due to global obligation on top of that most of the Chinese ships are modern ones while the Americans are close to obsolete having to replace most of their fleet in the next few years and the Chinese have an extremely large advantage in the region. The worst part is the Chinese are outbuilding the Americans by more than 4:1 ships. Almost Half their navy was built from 2018. The Chinese realize the Americans wants to seek conflict with them when Trump started his trade war and started crazy increase in naval built up. Now they are doing the same with the airforce. Even if they somehow loss round 1 to the Americans, they will win the next one
The Chinese missile system which is generally considered more advanced than what the american currently have basically means the aircraft carriers are pretty much useless making it even harder for them to fight the Chinese.
There is general consensus now that the Americans won't be joining any sort of conflict in the Taiwan straits especially after seeing how they abandoned Ukraine. Anyone who still thinks the Americans will defend Taiwan is probably living in a different reality. Its even more apparently when they are switching to telling Taiwan to buy weapons for urban warfare and stopped selling/transferring weapons that would prevent Chinese from landing a force in Taiwan.
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Zukiff t1_ixh3k2s wrote
Those numbers from the US are totally out of context. Yes the Chinese have far fewer missiles compared to the US overall but they have far more in Asia. If the US can summon the full might of their entire forces to fight China in Asia, yes they will probably win. In reality they can't, in the real world the US have global obligations and can only send a portion to a single theatre at any one time and that's not accounting for ships that are under maintenence which at any one time almost half their carriers are under servicing. That's why the US war games keep coming up with a result of US losing
Finally on the defence Treaty its no longer in effect because the Americans no longer recognize Taiwan as a country and the most ironic part, its a Treaty with China not Taiwan, might want to remember that, the country of Taiwan doesn't exist. The Republic of China does and its constitution states that mainland China is part of its territory
Sip_py t1_ixh7p3w wrote
It's funny you pose this as purely US v China when all of our allies would likely take up the fight seeing the strategic technological importance of Taiwan to the entire world.
Zukiff t1_ixh9st3 wrote
Which ally? I'm from Singapore, my govt already told you to go F off we're not taking sides. As far as we're concern this is a civil war and you clowns should stop causing trouble in the region. And we are one of you biggest "ally" in the region. All of Southeast Asia is pretty much doing the same. Most of them are actually more pro China than American.
That leaves Korea and Japan. Korea isn't going to fight its biggest trading partner especially when North Korea is waiting. The Japanese aren't keen on helping either. 74% of Japanese are against their govt taking actions over Taiwan and Japanese constitution does not allow them to do so. So they would actually need to literally change their constitution first.
Who else Mongolia? They are not American ally and they don't even have a navy. Australia? They are too far away and have no means to project power all the way to Taiwan. There's no one else in the region that will help you fight China.
dudeedud4 t1_ixhp725 wrote
Not Asian countries, we're talking western allies like Europe...
Zukiff t1_ixjey3r wrote
So you mean to tell me that NATO which is right next to Ukraine and has refused to help them fight Russia which is by all measure a weaker nation than China will somehow sail halfway around the world to defend Taiwan? I want to know what you're smoking right now
dudeedud4 t1_ixjgpi7 wrote
At no point did I say NATO...
Zukiff t1_ixjrcz7 wrote
Which one of their Western Allies in Europe isn't part of NATO? LOL. I really want to know that because NATO has more members than EU
dudeedud4 t1_ixjrmk8 wrote
You do realize that being in NATO doesn't mean they'll automatically attack if one NATO country attacks, right? Only if someone attacks a NATO country specifically.
Zukiff t1_ixk2452 wrote
Yes I know but you're the one telling me western Allies will come halfway around the world to fight China. I'm asking which one? Like I said, NATO don't even dare fight Russia which by all measure is a weaker nation than China, in Ukraine, which is literally right next to NATO nations. What makes you think members from that same group will sail halfway around the world to confront an even more powerful nation? I really want to understand the logic behind that
dudeedud4 t1_ixk2cd4 wrote
???? NATO is literally just making this a proxy war right now, and it's working. Why do YOU think this wouldn't happen?
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Sip_py t1_ixl3fjl wrote
I guess Australia doesn't exist at all. And yeah not all NATO countries will participate but do you really believe all European countries wouldn't side with the US and defend Taiwan? You think Germany or the UK is going to be okay with China invading Taiwan?
Zukiff t1_ixl68sw wrote
Do you even know how far Australia is from Taiwan? Australia also doesn't have power projection last I check they don't have any aircraft carrier and their ships will need to be resupplied somewhere. Southeast Asia have been pretty clear about not taking sides, they won't be able to resupply from there. And finally the current australian govt is trying to mend ties with China. Give it 2-3 months and you will see them making very different stance on the issue
China is Germany's biggest trading partner, their chancellor is the first European leader to visit China to improve ties immediately after Xi confirm his 3rd term. Even if they disagree, they aren't going to disagree hard. Besides, Germany has no power projection. To take part in a recent military exercise in Australia their fighters needed to refuel 5 times just to fly here. You really think they will fight China?
As for the UK, since they are nothing but US lackey I expect them to follow whatever US is doing. Which is nothing. The US dare not fight Russia what makes you think they will fight China which by their own assessment, they will lose. Furthermore to reinforce this point, the US have already moved most of their more advanced hardware like F35 out of the 1st island chain to the 2nd island chain defence to avoid Chinese missile system. They have no capacity to defend Taiwan in asia.
While I'm sure they will try to do something. Like I stated in my last post what are they able to do? Economic sanctions doesn't work and no one even their European Allies are going to support this, direct military means likelihood of losing and providing military support is next to impossible because of Chinese missile system and Taiwan being an island.
this_barb t1_ixhbqax wrote
It would be China vs the eastern world. Nearly every country wants to see the status quo maintained and they will assist in the effort to keep it that way.
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arkwald t1_ixibwpn wrote
You seem to forget that belligerent pompous assholes who can lie to themselves without consequence have extremely poor track records. CCP are just humans, same as you and I. They are not supermen or superior to anyone else when it comes down to it. Sure they may have lots and lots of manpower, but as we have seen in Ukraine manpower means very little when arrogance and pride overshadow basic reason.
China may indeed try to cross the Taiwan strait. They may attempt to seize the island of Taiwan. They may even succeed. However, the very fact they do so almost guarantees the arrogant pride that will break the people of China. It will expensive and bloody and will be for very little in the end. Expect millions of Chinese mothers to weep as their family lines end because of the feebleminded greed of a man resembling a character in a child's book.
Unlikely_Plankton_11 t1_ixgsngz wrote
> Numbers alone are overwhelming.
This isn’t WW2. Ask the Desert Storm era Iraqi army how useful their overwhelming numbers were.
slowslownotbad t1_ixgu127 wrote
China will probably make the same mistakes as Iraq and Russia.
Soviet doctrine dies hard.
Zukiff t1_ixh315a wrote
Overwhelming numbers and more technologically advance equipment. The Chinese Navy are state of the art while most of US existing flight is obsolete and they are unable to replace them in time. Youre comparing apples to rotten oranges here
erosram t1_ixiaje5 wrote
Apples to rotten oranges? Sounds like a one of those Chinese bot accounts.
Unlikely_Plankton_11 t1_ixjqw70 wrote
You’re describing an alternate reality. Don’t know what else to say to you.
Zukiff t1_ixjsjlg wrote
40% of the Chinese fleet are literally built over the last 4 years
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/05/china/china-world-biggest-navy-intl-hnk-ml-dst/index.html
Meanwhile has a lot of ships that are more than 30 years old like the ticonderoga class cruisersfacing decommissioning but doesn't have the building capacity to replace them
I'm not the one living in an alternative reality, our reality have moved on from the time where US is far more power than everyone else combined. Sure the Chinese are still not as powerful as the US Navy overall. But they are more powerful than the Americans when they are fighting in their own backyard while the US needs to travel thousands of miles to fight them
Unlikely_Plankton_11 t1_ixgsidx wrote
Ah, good article. Let me summarize for those who don’t feel like reading.
If every single tiny shred of CCP propaganda is true, and every missile works perfectly, and their ballistic missiles can reliably acquire, track, and destroy moving targets hundreds to thousands of miles away, and they leapfrog the US in operational experience (because they “learned from watching closely” after all!), and the entire killchain for these super-missiles remains intact and unmolested, oh and also they bomb Japan, Guam, and the US mainland with ballistic missiles (LOL), and if the US has no countermeasures to any of this so decides to just use carriers to Zerg-rush the Chinese coastline while holding their heads in their hands and crying…
…then the US military is toast! They’ll take Taiwan without a scratch for sure. You know this is true because an MIT professor and some loosely affiliated physicists in academia said so.
The US military fretting about new threats isn’t some slam dunk admission of helplessness. It kind of works the opposite way: rival announces new terrifying technology (e.g. impenetrable Russian cyborg armor), US panics and spends billions of dollars to develop, test, and field a countermeasure (e.g. the new MegaDeath 7000 Armor Annihilator rifle). Then it turns out that the scary rival technology was vaporware, and now the US has even more of an advantage. Rinse and repeat.
China isn’t Russia and is way better at building things. Presumably far less stupid and corrupt as well. But all of this is hypothetical and far too heavily weighted on comparing stats as if they’re the final arbiter. Yeah China is pumping out ships…and yet they don’t have enough trained fighter pilots to fill a single aircraft carrier. That’s cool they have 2000 hypersonic missiles. How many satellites or other assets do they have that are capable of tracking a warship in real-time to course-correct the missile during its flight? Etc. etc.
Nevermind that they have absolutely zero modern combat experience whatsoever. They’re good at oppressing their own population though, but look how that strategy worked out for Russia. Comparing trading cards stats is not especially informative here.
And this “general consensus” you keep mentioning. According to who? A few professors and a (likely) out of context quote from a war game? Pretty sure there was a war game where a Dutch fishing boat sunk every US carrier group too. (Paraphrasing but it was something similarly absurd). Wargames are not CS:GO matches where the goal is to see who is the most better. They have specific purposes to examine specific scenarios, and cycle through various hypotheticals to see what happens, often involving unrealistic constraints because they can result in interesting outcomes. The point is to learn, not to go “USA numbah one.” They should not be taken as proof of anything. Not least of all because all of the most interesting conclusions - as well as potential counters to hypothetical rival tactics - are usually classified. Therefore unavailable to trash-tier internet news sites.
The Chinese hypersonic missiles are like the F-35 all over again, but in reverse.
slowslownotbad t1_ixgu50s wrote
Operating around Chinese Military Aviation during the hunt for MH-370 was underwhelming, to say the least.
I’m sure they have a long way to go.
muffinhead2580 t1_ixh7toc wrote
Yeah because those that benefit from increased military spending would never exaggerate, right? I would have trust what 8nsiders say about the US military might publicly. We are far ahead in technology than what the public is aware of.
Zukiff t1_ixhasn1 wrote
Go look up Hypersonic missiles and try to convince yourself that you are still far ahead.
muffinhead2580 t1_ixhe813 wrote
The US had hypersonic aircraft and missiles long before any other country. Go look up the X43 and see what year that aircraft was flying. You really think the US just put that technology on the shelf and ignored it or do you think maybe, maybe they don't advertise the technology that has been developed.
Face it Putin, we are so far ahead of everyone else in the world in terms of technology it's not even a competition except for second place. Second place is also the place that China doesn't hold.
Zukiff t1_ixhff54 wrote
Just did and nope they are clearly behind China
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/20/politics/us-hypersonic-china-russia-competition/index.html
You have prototype, the Chinese have functioning mass produced ones that are already deployed and operational
muffinhead2580 t1_ixhjfv4 wrote
lol, ok buddy. Whatever keeps you happy.
thrwcnt1x t1_ixhnaku wrote
> There is a group of political elites within the US who feel...
Okay. Who are these people you didn't name?
Frenchiie t1_ixgadr8 wrote
it's true, and the same could be said about countries like North Korea.
BigBasket9778 t1_ixgwfm6 wrote
It’s straight from Machiavelli, and it’s actually the right strategy - https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/niccolo_machiavelli_110239
thatbumguy t1_ixga25z wrote
That’s not the US forcing conflict. Maintaining current status is in Taiwan and US interest. China wants what isn’t theirs.
ArQ7777 t1_iy5mohu wrote
China wants the whole world. Xi just takes priority to take what first. Right now much of Africa and South America are already in Xi's hands.
deja_geek t1_ixgfihz wrote
Except for TSMC has been rapidly setting up offices and fabs outside of Taiwan. Also, the fabs on Taiwan are along the coast and would be destroy in any invasion scenario. Pretty much, TSMC fabs and tech are out of reach for China, even if they attempt to take Taiwan.
Exist50 t1_ixgq77n wrote
> Except for TSMC has been rapidly setting up offices and fabs outside of Taiwan
Not really. They've been extremely reluctant, and only when very heavily subsidized. Even then, all the latest and greatest is in Taiwan.
slowslownotbad t1_ixgu6dv wrote
Taiwan’s government doesn’t want them abandoning the island.
Exist50 t1_ixhtnkj wrote
Morris Chang has spoken many times about their issues and dissatisfaction with their Arizona plant. So I think there are more fundamental reasons.
pimpeachment t1_ixkogwl wrote
It isn't finished yet. They are upset with the construction process, not the fab.
pimpeachment t1_ixkoc43 wrote
They are building a TSMC fab down the street from me near anthem, az. Slightly north of phoenix. Not sure what you talking about...
Exist50 t1_ixkphs9 wrote
What I said. Heavily subsidized, and trailing the tech deployed in Taiwan.
quettil t1_ixgeayr wrote
What good would it do them? TSMC relies on Western technology to make the chips, and they'd quickly become obsolete, assuming they're not blown up before the Chinese can get them.
Pandatotheface t1_ixic13b wrote
There's much more to Taiwan than just chips for china, it's a wealthy country for lots of reasons, and they've wanted it even before it was wealthy, it's home to their political rivals they've been trying to kill for the last century, chips are only in the news at the moment because that's the US interest in Taiwan.
And besides that, just going scorched earth and leveling the playing field, if China can't get them, at least the US can't either.
quettil t1_ixiue2b wrote
If they invaded, it would destroy everything that made it wealthy.
Stroomschok t1_ixhe9he wrote
And how much of TSMC is going to be left after a military invasion you think? China knows that invading Taiwan is a loss-loss situation.
High-end chipmaking in Taiwan will be gone and since it requires western equipment and technology to rebuild, it will never return under China's control.
this_barb t1_ixhbhc2 wrote
That's only a small part of the reason. The real reason is the CCP is afraid of democracy "spreading." Taiwan is a success story by almost every metric. China is a failure in comparison. CCP doesn't that comparison so close to home.
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HoboHash t1_ixgd0ek wrote
I thought silicon atom is around 2nm??
Admirable_Royal_5119 t1_ixgh0w8 wrote
2nm is not length of the transistor. They stopped using the actual dimensions when referring nm long time ago. Here 2nm means 1.5x faster than 3nm chips
kagoolx t1_ixgr8xe wrote
Oh man that’s disappointing. So not only are they not preparing for these chips here, but we no longer have a meaningful measure. Do you think this 1nm truly will scale performance wise as though it was actually 1nm?
Admirable_Royal_5119 t1_ixgtdq1 wrote
I'm no expert in this field from what i know, Smaller transistor is not always be better. When you shrink transistor smaller and smaller electrons will start jumping from nodes spontaneously due to quantum tunneling thus increasing the computational error. These 1nm will not have the same power efficient of actual 1nm chips but you can increase the performance by optimising layout architecture etc. It depends on the company making it, for example Intel 10nm outperforms some 7nm amd chips
Exist50 t1_ixik2up wrote
No, doesn't mean that either. If anything, Dennard scaling died earliest.
MoroseDelight t1_ixghgct wrote
Silicon atoms are 0.21 nm across.
csrak t1_ixgjkm1 wrote
That's the bond length between silicon atoms in a crystal, the theoretical thickness of a single layer of silicon atoms is about 0.14 nm.
But real thickness depends on the stacking layers and is kind of arbitrary at this scale.
adamcmorrison t1_ixgdfvq wrote
Oh shit that solves it. I guess their ambition to build 1nm and this article are just a joke. April fools.
HoboHash t1_ixgdm7y wrote
Lmao? Its 0.2nm not 2nm. My bad haha
Substantial_Boiler t1_ixghlf6 wrote
nm is now a marketing name, like a "version" with different associated features
ArQ7777 t1_iy5mz6f wrote
Still TSMC can only call it 1nm when it is actually 1.9nm.
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DoneisDone45 t1_ixh1xpb wrote
wow i thought 1nm was impossible.
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hypercomms2001 t1_ixgztt3 wrote
At what scale do electrons stop acting as particles, but instead wave functions, and start tunnelling through walls...
xevizero t1_ixh0kga wrote
Probably around that scale, yes
Voronit t1_ixhhncr wrote
Smaller they get, more heat they make right?
acdcfanbill t1_ixhl04l wrote
No, the less. That’s the whole reason to go smaller in the first place. It may end up being more watts per mm^2 but it would be less per transistor.
LaCiel_W t1_ixgagoe wrote
They are very scared, $32 billion dollar scared, ramping up the tech and remind the world that the land they are in is worth defending.
sweglrd143 t1_ixgdow1 wrote
They aren’t scared, China has no chance in an invasion
PMzyox t1_ixg6drn wrote
Wow past. Here we are almost at 1nm. There were points we never thought we’d be able to get here. Look at us now. Congrats humanity.