What's coming for us at 45nm
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Keith R. Williams wrote: | Let's just say that only bleeding-edge fabs that produce chips | with _large_ unit volumes can be economically be built. One can | do high value chips with smaller volume in such fabs. Indeed | someone has to pay the light bill. ;-) Someone made a case a few years ago that bleeding edge works only for CPUs, because they will sell even at a high price, and memory, because you can make a lot of chips of really small size. I won't try to recreate the arguments, but they seemed valid. -- Bill Davidsen CTO, TMR Associates As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. -Benjamin Franklin (who would have liked open source) |
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