Share with friends and circles of friends with wechat scanning QR code < / P > < p > < p > < p > on August 2, Intel, Samsung and TSMC are boasting about how many transistors they can put into a small chip, but in fact, the nano size in this publicity is almost meaningless. Industry experts say this statement is nonsense. In fact, the chip "node" size is much larger than the value advertised by manufacturers

chip manufacturers that make smart phones, TVs and other electronic products always like to boast about the powerful computing power of their products. They also boast that the size of the chip that does all the complex work is shrinking

for chip manufacturers, the increasing miniaturization of chip transistors marks the continuous improvement of processing speed or the continuous reduction of energy consumption, which is conducive to winning lucrative contracts

however, the competition on chip miniaturization has led to chaos in the market. How many nanometers of chips are often related to the size of transistors. For many years, it has been widely believed that the smaller the number, the better the chip

Samsung recently began mass production of the so-called industry's first 3-nanometer chip, and company executives raised three fingers to celebrate this moment. But if you ask TSMC and Intel for their opinions, they may suggest that Samsung executives raise another finger, or even more

Yang Ruilin, the Consulting Director of a research institution closely related to TSMC, said, "please don't focus on the number 3."

at the same time, Willy Shih, a professor at Harvard Business School, said that from a numerical point of view alone, it is not certain that Samsung's 3-nanometer chip will be better than TSMC's 4-nanometer chip. He said that factors such as chip computing performance and energy consumption need to be compared

"this is the victory of marketing hype," he said when talking about the nano scale of the chip industry

Samsung declined to comment on the comparison between its chips and TSMC products. The company said that its production of the latest chips was improved on the basis of the previous 5-nanometer process technology

the publicity of the semiconductor industry is no different from the marketing gimmicks of other industries. For example, this is the change in the size of modern clothing. Men with a waist of 34 inches can now wear pants marked "32", and women's size 8 may be yesterday's size 16

the chip industry used to unite to create common measurement standards. For decades, this standard has followed Moore's law. Chip "nodes" continue to make breakthroughs in miniaturization, eventually reducing computers the size of refrigerators to laptops, smartphones and watches

what makes the problem more complicated is that in the past few decades, the number of companies engaged in cutting-edge chip production has decreased from dozens to three, namely TSMC, Samsung and Intel

everyone wants to share more in the market with few participants, not to mention there are few areas of cooperation between them. The most advanced chips have reduced the circuit to a few prototypes
2023-03-22 10:04:54