today, 9/30/17 TSMC breaks ground on their 3nm production facility.Yep, real poured concrete plans from TSMC to be at 3nm inside 3-5 years.
TSMC's EUV laser tech has proven out good enough to do it and the EUV masking tech has been all worked out at 5nm making "new memory" for the last year.
Stuff has to be real before the concrete gets poured .....Once again,
memory production will go first and that lasts for at least a year or two before Apple decides they really really really need a 3nm chip to stay up on top. Then the "then current 5nm stuff" gets superseded by the new 3nm stuff .....
PREDICTION:
3nm will be at the end of the line for immersion lithography, after that a new tech base will have to take over, something that we haven't even invented yet ....
Your phone will be insanely powerful, 10 gigs of fast memory right on your phone's stacked SOC will be commonplace and OTA gigabyte data plans will be commonplace.
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Little factoid Intel doesn't want you to know.
AMD used to base itself off of Intel x86 intellectual properties.
This has changed this year and your soon to come out AMD conjoined AI CPU / GPU/ AI laptop chipsets built at 10nm from AMD are all going to be built using ARM DynamIQ technology with just a few name brand-able tweeks.
This same "based on ARM DynamIQ tech" story is true from QUALCOMM and APPLE now as well. This factoid is followed on this next week by a tripling change in the Linux support cycle to move it from a phone-like 2 year support cycle to a more PC or mainframe like 6 year support cycle.
...... yep, Apple's A-11 Bionic is a tweeked DynamIQ chipset with a custom GPU and AI block ......===================================================
This Lenaro/Linux tripling increase in support time was called for by the Qualcomm 835 / Microsoft's new uses as a PC which are head our way by Christmas. These devices will be in laptops and desktops and need the same 6 plus year support periods accordingly.
The 2 year phone support/scrap cycle has now officially ended too, with batteries lasting far far longer now and the larger costs of a primo phone causing users to want to keep their phones much much longer than 2 years.
Look to see your DynamIQ based phones and laptops carry Lenaro/Linux/Google based support for up to 6-8 years, with user group based support continuing on far past that.
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https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Apple-A11-Performance-Review-iPhone-... https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Apple-A11-Performance-Review-iPhone-...This is PC Performance, a mainstream PC magazine, saying that Apple can go with their home grown Apple A-11 SOC using iOS 10 for software
right now and beat up on the current Intel based products
very very badly on Apple Mac style laptops.
Better performance, better battery life. Less expensive to build.
And if they did it right now, they could slow or mostly stop the ever increasing volume losses bleeding over to Chromebooks.
And if they (Apple) doesn't go do it right now, Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 based Win 10 machines will show up and hurt them still further in ways they will not be able to regain at all, ever, going forward.