TSMC becomes first to announce R&D for 2nm node

[philehidiot]

Crikey, if this stuff gets any smaller they're going to have to employ me to manipulate the atoms with my penis.

No one else has the experience in handling something so small.

[devBunny]

Crikey, if this stuff gets any smaller they're going to have to employ me to manipulate the atoms with my penis.

No one else has the experience in handling something so small.

LOL! I bow to a master of self-deprecating humour. :-D

Mind you, to be comfortable posting such an "admission", it has to be suspected that you have an, er, "atom-manipulating tool" of ginormous proportions, something that your average adult "chip-grinding" star can only dream of. )

[DavidC1]

This is pretty impressive, but "2nm" here would have been equal to 5nm if the same metrics used a decade ago were used to determine feature sizes used here. Compared to a decade ago, assume a process step is equal to a half-node. So a 10nm to 7nm is really a half node jump.

It's taking more and more to achieve less than before.

[Shane74]

It's both awesome and scary.
Things are becoming so small that if you fart, You may get a different calculation off the cpu!