Russia Says It's Assembled a Lithography Machine, Will Make 350nm Chips Soon (www.extremetech.com)

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[-] Forester@yiffit.net 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The 350 nanometer process is a level of semiconductor process technology that was reached in the 1995–1996 timeframe

The new stuff is 3nm

[-] reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 months ago

350 nm is massive and ancient relative to new processes, but the name of a new process stopped physically meaning anything a while ago. for instance, the 3 nm process smallest distance between traces is only 24 nm.

now the industry just names a new process when enough techniques for improving performance (without much actual size difference) exist.

[-] Venat0r@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I think this youtuber might have achieved similar nm with his DIY setup, but I don't remember. He's using a different process though.

[-] reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago

breaking taps is very impressive, but sam zeloof made it quite a bit further, he made his own packaged IC. now he runs a startup called atomic semi, that is trying to use electron beam lithography for prototyping.

[-] tehWrapper@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

More than enough power to guide a missile.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not a guide missile with any kind of scrambling necessary to not get obliterated by current DoD tech. When it comes to realtime, clock-rate is everything.