[HN Gopher] TSMC 2nm chip plans announced
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       TSMC 2nm chip plans announced
        
       Author : uptown
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2021-07-28 15:37 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (9to5mac.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (9to5mac.com)
        
       | abinaya_rl wrote:
       | > It is expected to use 98,000 tons of water a day -- roughly 50%
       | of TSMC's total daily water consumption in 2020
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       | Is chip manufacturing machines use so much of water? is it used
       | for cooling or what this has been used for? can someone explain?
        
         | genericone wrote:
         | It might be because of all the reverse-osmosis and other
         | purifying processes that give you some ratio of ultra-pure-
         | water:slightly-unpure-water, which gets even more unbalanced
         | for the smaller node sizes.
        
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