350 nm is massive and ancient relative to new processes, but the name of a new process stopped physically meaning anything a while ago. for instance, the 3 nm process smallest distance between traces is only 24 nm.

now the industry just names a new process when enough techniques for improving performance (without much actual size difference) exist.

[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think this youtuber might have achieved similar nm with his DIY setup, but I don't remember. He's using a different process though.

[–] reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

breaking taps is very impressive, but sam zeloof made it quite a bit further, he made his own packaged IC. now he runs a startup called atomic semi, that is trying to use electron beam lithography for prototyping.

[–] tehWrapper@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

More than enough power to guide a missile.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not a guide missile with any kind of scrambling necessary to not get obliterated by current DoD tech. When it comes to realtime, clock-rate is everything.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 5 months ago

A stupid missile for sure, you don't even need a computer for that.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

The newest stuff out of Taiwan is 1.6nm.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Baby steps