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I wished we used the node names, like TSMC N4/N4P/N4X, because nanometers are meaningless.


Well in that context TSMC N4P tells you no more information than 4-nm does.


No information, but at least it doesn't mislead into thinking there are 4nm transistors, or transistor gates, or some discrete feature of any sort that's that small.


Are transistors per square mm a better metric ?


I won’t be surprised if the US plants started referring to the 4NM nodes in their imperial form (1.575 × 10-7”)


Angstroms aren’t imperial, but they are non-SI, so if we want to be petty they’d probably be the way to go.


Scientific notation would be to logical. Instead they'll make a new tiny unit that subdivides the inch into 1/81975489347.7 of an inch.


God yes.


Per square foot please. This is America.


"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Americans need to stop measuring things in feet :)


Per square banana please. This is the internet.


I thought libraries of congress were the correct way to measure?


1.31 x 10⁻⁸ football fields.

(1 football field = 91.44 meters)


> (1 football field = 91.44 meters)

By? Which football? The real football, or the football played mostly with hands?


= 100m if you're using metric football fields


Bruh, you're never gonna be a good trad wife as a man. You're just not that pretty.


As such I’m going to assume it’s the least impressive variant of 4NM.




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