Comment on Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims

• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought it meant the transistor size.

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  • Patch@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It doesn’t really mean anything anymore. The transistors are not 5nm either. It’s just marketing.

    Quoth Wikipedia:

    The term “5 nm” has no relation to any actual physical feature (such as gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch) of the transistors being 5 nanometers in size. According to the projections contained in the 2021 update of the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems published by IEEE Standards Association Industry Connection, a “5 nm node is expected to have a contacted gate pitch of 51 nanometers and a tightest metal pitch of 30 nanometers”. However, in real world commercial practice, “5 nm” is used primarily as a marketing term by individual microchip manufacturers to refer to a new, improved generation of silicon semiconductor chips in terms of increased transistor density (i.e. a higher degree of miniaturization), increased speed and reduced power consumption compared to the previous 7 nm process.

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    • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m surprised this is not enough for a lawsuit to happen

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