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Comment by ijhuygft776 | Hacker News Reader

so, how many nanometers is 2nm?

For those unaware, "2nm" is marketing-speak. The actual physical dimensions are 45nm gate pitch and 20nm tightest metal pitch for 2nm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process

https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/tsmc-7nm-5nm-and-3nm-are-just-n...

Oh wow, so a 7 percent improvement, not 50 percent. I'd heard about the disparity, but didn't know it was that big.

If this isnt a joke, 2nm=2 nanometers.

If this isn't a joke, you are wrong. What a world we live in.

> Today, terms such as “2 nanometer” and “3 nanometer” are widely used as shorthand for each new generation of chip, rather than a semiconductor's actual physical dimensions.

Its almost as if we live in 1984 where newspeak goes un-noticed

Oh! Do you mean how many actual nanometers a transistor made on a '2nm' process is?

What I mean is: WTF, no one cares how many nanometers it is... why lie about it either way, anyways?

I think that’s a popular sentiment, but we should all appreciate the person who answered your question as if it was good-faith, right? That’s a good instinct for somebody to have.

for sure... I didn't down-vote him unlike some other people... I can't down-vote on this account anyways (I actually up-voted him because I saw his comment had been shadow banned, which is another terrible practice... humans are messed up, I hope AI takes over, for the better or the worst)

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