Why are the 2nm chips important? I wouldn't guess that the chip is the bit restricting the size of a phone or laptop, it's the battery and the LCD screen and all that stuff.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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You could have 2 if the exact same processors one built on 3nm and one built on 2 nm, the 2nm chip would be any where from 15-30% faster and more power efficient too
It means the transistors and things are each 2 nm, not the whole chip. Just in case you were confused about that.
Smaller chips requires less power to run.
Aside from letting you cram more circuitry onto the same size chip, smaller transistors means you can get better power efficiency and reduce heat output.
Basically, even if you just take an existing design and use it to make chips at a smaller node size, you get chips which run cooler and with less power. Those chips can then get you the same performance with better efficiency (e.g. same speed but better battery life), or you can crank up the speed so that you get more speed for the same amount of power as the original.
And as mentioned above, because the transistors are smaller, you can fit more stuff onto the chip. So you can make even more complex chips which also still run more efficiently than their predecessors (both because of the direct power savings from using smaller transistors, and because designs become more efficient).
The 3-nanometer thing was classic anticompetitive behavior right? Will the European union or the American government investigate Apple?
Tsmc surely is in a class of its own. The other Arm cpu makers are lagging.
I'm awaiting the M4 Macbook air. I wanna see the performance comparison between it and a Windows 💻 with a 2024 Intel cpu.
Does secret mean something new now?
Talk about information "leaks" these days...
They're just pre-ads at this point.
For commercial products, they always have been.
Yep, I see it the same way. Fake sensationalism to keep people engaged.
I'm sure actual leaks also do happen from time to time, but way less often than they make us think.
Re real leaks, Mark Gurman seems legit. When Gurman reported something, then I awaited Apple's announcement, the official thing matched what Gurman said.
Oh crap. I shouldn't have said there was a meeting. Oh crap. I definitely shouldn't have said it was a secret. Oh crap. I absolutely should not have said it was to reserve all our 2nm chip capacity.
Oh, it's too hot today.
Secret meeting … reported
That’s not how secrets work at all.
I think you’re thinking of secret secret meetings.
Ah yes, those unknown unknowns
Those happen in the volcano lair
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