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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: 38 Mb/mm^2 SRAM
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:36:23 +0100
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On 10/31/24 16:01, Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 31-Oct-24 8:46 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>> SRAM scaling isn't dead after all — TSMC's 2nm process tech claims 
>> major improvements
>>   
>> https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/sram-scaling-isnt-dead-after-all-tsmcs-2nm-process-tech-claims-major-improvements#main
>>
>> gate all around tech...
>>   38 Mb/mm^2
>>
> If my arithmetic is right, there are about 50 atoms of silicon per cubic 
> nanometre. Surely we're approaching the limits of this.
> 
> Sylvia.

The stated '2nm process' has little to do with the actual size
of features on the chip. It has become a sales argument rather
than the true size of something.

Jeroen Belleman