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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

For a while now the "nm" has been a bit of a marketing description aiming for what the size would be if you extrapolated the way things used to be to today. The industry spent so long measuring that when the measurement broke down they just kind of had to fudge it to keep the basis of comparison going, for lack of a better idea . If we had some fully volumetric approach building these things equally up in three dimensions, we'd probably have less than "100 pm" process easily, despite it being absurd.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    There is no way less than 100 pm can make sense.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    As I said. It's an extrapolation of the rules from once upon a time to a totally different approach. It's marketing and increasingly subjective. Any number can "make sense" in that context. The number isn't based on anything you could actually measure for a long time now, it's already a fiction, so it can go wherever.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    People have accepted heat pumps as 400% efficient. This is the same.

    And realistically, how do you describe in an approachable way “you experience what would look like an impossible number if we had continued as before”, where the “if” is key, as is “you experience”

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    For what it's worth, I think the heat pump measurement makes way more sense. What I want is to heat my house. I give you one watt hour and you give me 4 watt hours of heat. Sounds like 400% to me.

    The real issue here is that for the most part the measurements never meant anything for silicon chips. At least too end users.

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