[HN Gopher] TSMC: 3nm Chips for Smartphones and HPCs Coming This...
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       TSMC: 3nm Chips for Smartphones and HPCs Coming This Year
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-07-23 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | jiggawatts wrote:
       | The increased SRAM density is a big thing. As process sizes
       | shrink, logic does get smaller but cache memory generally lags
       | behind and does not shrink proportionally.
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       | That's one reason why CPU caches are still so small and haven't
       | changed much in over a decade.
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       | This change should enable larger L1 and L2 caches, which is
       | important on modern CPUs that spend much of their time waiting
       | for data to come back from main memory.
        
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