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To: Elroy who wrote (195331)8/22/2025 11:36:17 AM
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--> can't go lower ...

An angstrom (symbol Å) is a non-SI unit of length equal to one ten-billionth of a meter (10?¹° m) or 0.1 nanometers. Named after the Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström, it is used to measure wavelengths of light, the sizes of atoms and molecules, and the dimensions of integrated circuit components.

It's the benefit of the effort that matters and the absolute drop currently and beyond 1nm is certainly smaller than anything we've ever experienced in the past.

Going from 4nm to 3nm appears to bring about 30% improvement in battery or performance.

It's all about ... What is good enough? Solely a cost benefit analysis.

Ah, I see IBM foundaries are now in the hands of Global Foundaries en.wikipedia.org but they still run a packaging operation ibm.com . Given the move to chiplets the later should be most important. Being in Canada, it's surely not applicable for Chips Act funding unless we get gobbled up, of course.