ASML extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography test machines ship

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Samsung, Intel and other companies could be using EUV in mass production by 2018.

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Presumably there are more chips per wafer with a size reduction so presumably 800 wafers isn't as bad as it could be?

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Originally Posted by cheesemp

Presumably there are more chips per wafer with a size reduction so presumably 800 wafers isn't as bad as it could be?

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Well Nvidia's new pascal is 610mm on 16nm physically larger than any chips they made at 28nm so less per wafer than the previous generation.

Shrinking chips allows you to make older chips cheaper but if you want performance improvements then the size will either stay the same or get larger.

The game consoles will see cost reduction from having smaller chips but phone SoC's/CPU's/GPU's will stay the same in size.