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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Math Junkie who wrote (20751)6/24/1998 10:17:00 PM
From: Sid Stuart  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
Shrinking the feature size by 50% lets you add 100% more transistors, not 50%.

Hmmm, I'm a software engineer, not hardware, but wouldn't shrinking feature size by 50% reduce surface area used by 75%?
(x/2)*(y/2) = (x*y)/4 where area = x*y
That would mean you could add 300% more transistors.

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