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swisstraeng t1_j09ahok wrote

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

Indeed.

1 Angstrom is 0.1nm, and it's first of all completely dumb to use non-standard units, when they could have said 100pm instead.

Intel just ran out of numbers to write, so they used the next available scale: angstrom.

But again, that's just a marketing number.

Intel calls it 18A. TSCM calls it N2, samsung calls it 2GAP. But all those fancy names are just factory processes. Ways to make silicon chips. Those processes are currently done in laboratories and being researched, and are expected to be used around 2025 for production.

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WHAT_DID_YOU_DO t1_j09o1el wrote

TBF to angstrom that is the length of atomic bonds so it’s a lot easier to say a carbon atom is a little over an angstrom than 130 pm

Agreed on most other non-standard measurements though

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