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jjayzx t1_j08zqx2 wrote

Reply to comment by Mango1666 in Japan to Manufacture 2nm Chips With a Little Help From IBM by Avieshek

What do mean substance? GAAFET(Gate All Around FET) is a design, not a material.

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swisstraeng t1_j09bv7d wrote

True that it's not a material, BUT there is a valid point that, such 3D ways of doing transistors are expensive to manufacture.

And we, consumers, don't like expensive things. We want performance/price most of the time.

Not a lot of us would be ready for a 4000$ CPU if it meant 30% better perfs over a 900$ CPU.

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jjayzx t1_j09ddkj wrote

Different designs is how things have been moving forward and how they've been targeting the performance/price ratio. If the device does not require much processing power there are other processors still made on older nodes for a lower price point. The majority of pricing is in the machines, wafers and yields.

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