Moore’s Law is Alive and Well
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Charts show it may be dying at Intel, but others are picking up the slack.Transistors per Square Millimeter by Year, 1971–2018. Logarithmic scale. Data from Wikipedia.The chart above scatter plots all of the complete data from the microprocessor section of the “Transistor count” Wikipedia article. This is charted on a logarithmic scale for the vertical access. I added a line from the bottom left dot to the top right dot, for reference. As you can see, transistor density has been increasing at a fairly even exponential rate, even into 2018.Right now the smallest process node in production is 7 nanometer (nm) from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). But Samsung has announced process nodes all the way down to 3 nm, and just yesterday we learned that TSMC is approved to build (...)
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