It’s not the packaging that costs money or limits us, it’s the chips themselves. If we crammed a 3.5” form factor full of flash storage, it would be far outside the budgets of mortals.
Nope. Larger chips, lower yields in the fab, more expensive. This is why we have chiplets in our CPUs nowadays. Production cost of chips is superlinear to size.
enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
It’s not the packaging that costs money or limits us, it’s the chips themselves. If we crammed a 3.5” form factor full of flash storage, it would be far outside the budgets of mortals.
earphone843@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
You could make the chips bigger, which should be cheaper to produce.
enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Nope. Larger chips, lower yields in the fab, more expensive. This is why we have chiplets in our CPUs nowadays. Production cost of chips is superlinear to size.
earphone843@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Then lower the storage density. Making things as small as possible almost always ends up being more expensive.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Skill issue