@@ChatGPT1111 OOoohh god bless you for asking about cats and videos because without cats what hair would we have to eat so god bless cats and hair and god bless god for making cats have hair well there are cats without hair so god bless the weirdos who bred hairless cats and the weirdos who buy them ohhhhhhhoh
yes it is amazing. universe created the most powerful object in existence and it only weighs 3 pounds and you can hold it in your hand. the human brain. we are extraordinary
I'm Brazilian, and I graduated in microelectronic processes. Only 7 people graduates in this area per year in Brazil. Later (about 10 years ago), I attended a course on chip design. I'm among the select few who had some education in microelectronics in this country. Needless to say that I never worked in the area. My diploma is gathering dust, and I actually work with software development, where I built a career out of grit and stubbornness. I like to watch your videos, to reminesce about the 5 years of my life that I wasted studying those topics, how even back then the course was hopelessly obsolete, how now my knowledge is about 50 years out of phase with current trends (It was already 30 when I was a student). It was a difficult course, with high turnover, and no hope of employment. I was a fool for going through it. At very least it was State sponsored and I paid nothing.
Semiconductor fabrication, only has industries in Asia region, particularly china taiwan korea.... unless you r in those countries, speak korean or mandarin... if not i do not foresee your country capable of producing any related job for it. Do what ur country,Brazil good at...maybe burn down amazon, be farmer or play soccer...
Yes look into jobs in for example the US. They are building lots of new fabs here in the news recently, I can only imagine people with your knowledge is highly sought after. Doesn't hurt to apply and look into.
I'm in IT and worked in a university computing science department, and this is as good an explanation of the past, present, and future of transistors as I have heard.
Hey I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy and am informed by your videos - love your choice of topics, sometimes quirky (Venera Program), sometimes highly topical (Hardware for AI) but always insightful. Your level of engagement with the physics and math hits just right for me. Congratulations and best wishes for a prosperous 2023!
I became a grad student at UC Berkeley's EECS department in the Fall of 1984. Following my undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and med school, I wanted to know more about semiconductor device physics. I prepared for prelim exams with an undergrad course taught by professor Chenming Hu. He was a superb teacher and communicator. I subsequently learned he is also a superb human being. Professor Hu, if you are out there, this humble medical device scientist is great full for your teaching and the gift of putting to use the FinFET electronics to better manage heart diseases. God speed, professor.
Small correction: I was at a factory making military devices containing 3-D bipolar transistors and other devices, in MMIC's in the early 1980's. The difference was that they were much larger devices than the modern versions.
My commendations for how you manage to keep these videos both informative AND entertaining. I have no particular skills in CPU or semi-conductor architecture yet I find your videos fascinating. I'm a double STEM grad (physics/finance) so I know how tough it is to make subject matter like this appeal to specialists or students within the field, let alone casual observers like myself. Well done sir!
Thank you for this! I had to smile when you mentioned your father at NSC...that's where I worked first...at their first fab (I don't think we called them that at the time!) in Danbury CT
I cranked the volume on my headphones to force this information into my brain. Asianometry does a stupendous job of informing, what was, what is, and what's will be. Technology keeps throwing curve balls, Asianometry shows us the pitch.
Yeah which is why his non semiconductor/hardware videos has more views. Hopefully he gets paid more (cpm) for the high IQ videos which are his signature ones.
I like these videos. I am no engineer, but I understand the "problems and hurdles" with new processes and like knowing more details rather than "there are yield problems with the new technology"
Another outstanding video, great summary and great visuals. Slight correction: Intel moved to high k metal gate for 45nm. Their 32nm node was a shrink of 45nm, the second high k metal gate node, and, as you noted, final planar node. Samsung tried to squeeze one more planar process for 20nm, but it was a disaster. 14nm yielded far better with finFETs.
Everyone forgets that DARPA is often the mother of our modern invention era. They only focus on where commercial production ends up. A whole era of innovation in technology usually begins at DARPA
Very well written and paced, love the narrative! If I can make a suggestion, for those of us viewing at night or on a home projector, it would be great to show article screenshots in dark mode or at least a lower contrast background (something like the warm brown color of parchment) to reduce the sudden switching between graphics / photos / video and the full blast of a 255-255-255 bright white page of paper.
Great video, saw you got 400k subscribers now too! I remember when you only had like 40k but the videos were the same high quality and well researched as they are now. Glad to see you finally get the viewers/subs this level of content really deserves
It’s nearly twenty years since I was in the semiconductor industry, your videos give me an excellent insight into modern developments. Thank you for taking the time to make them.
in spite of all the terrible going on in the world, its things like this that make you think that its really a great time to be alive and seeing all this happen.
Well, statistically speaking there was no better time to be alive. Never has a larger percentage of the human population lived in peace, didn't starve and so on. Problem is that nowadays you have the means to inform you about all the crap that happens anyways.
@@Noise-Bomb that is true but human brains are wired to react far stronger to threats and negative emotions than positive ones. Its a beneficial survival strategy in the wild but anachronistic in modern society
Thanks for that explanation, I kind of actually understood this one a bit. Like in buildings, each floor you build comes free as you pay for the lot size only once. But the higher you go the more they cost per floor. Charles
Kind of, kind of not. In architecture, each new floor costs marginally so little compared to the marginal value it adds that it makes sense to build higher. A more apt analogy is that building higher was what they did before hitting the limitations described in the video. So finfets is as if now everyone would have to build cantilever buildings or buildings with holes in them to pass wind flow, to compensate for not being able to build higher. So in my opinion examples of "finfet buildings" might be The Link in Dubai (cantilever skybridge between two buildings) or 432 Park Avenue in NYC (a very tall building in comparison to its footprint.)
Just want to thank you for making this content! There is not a lot of quality content on the industry I both work and am interested a lot and it's great to have something where I can say, hey I have worked on this or I have seen this or I found that interesting as well. I have shared this channel to so many customers and colleaugues I work with and shared on every unviersity or workshop lecture I gave, You are amazing! I always had the idea of starting content creation on Semicon in the back of my mind, and this is really inspiring!
You do a SUPER human job of taking theese abstract concepts and making them readily available to all. I am a technologist with almost foury years in semiconductors and learn something everytime I tune into your channel. Thank you for all your hard work!
Awesome content as usual, spent 16 years in semi as equipment tech, late 90s to early 2000s started in military ceramic packaging and ended up in R&d fab dry etch, your content is fantastic thanks
Executive summary: Great video! As a software person working closeto hardware I know much of the information in your video but not necessarily the background such as history or who invented what an its great to see all this information to be presente in around 15 min. Considering you also need to edit etc. these videos I'm sure you have Snowwhite's dwarves and many more minions working for you in the background ;-)
Really nice and interesting video, as always! Looking forward to your video on the next gen technologies involving superlattices and atomic layer deposition.
Nice video, this info reminds me some words in the datasheets of some discrete power semiconductors transistors like: TrenchFET (Vishay), HexFET (Infineon-Int.Rect), SuperMesh (ST), HiperFET (IXYS) and CM2 (CREE). Some techonologies are for lowering the RDS_on and other to withstand high open voltage (some mosfet are rated to 1.7 kV OMG!)
I always thought HexFET sounded weird but didn't look it up until today. Turns out that it indeed consists of a hexagonal lattice as the name might imply. Zeptobars even has a die shot of it.
That was awesome video! Thanks and happy new year! I think at the moment the computing power in smartphones is sufficient to do all things I could think of. We are lucky that physics allows to produce stuff like modern smartphones without spending too much money, this limit could have been reached couple of years ago and that would mean laggy gps, slow low res youtube and no 3d smartphone graphics and no refresh rates above 60hz, with all mentioned stuff being available before that limit I am not worried too much. I might be a bit of a oldtimer (I just had my birthday today finished 38 years)
As developing new nodes gets more expensive, it'll just happen slower. Given time, paying for it is no question. Once the entire market has bought the last node and doesn't want more of it, the payoff for coming up with node n+1 becomes astronomical. Right now that's not the case, previous node is just a few years old, and node n+2 is coming soon enough, no problem to skip a node or few.
i feel like if programmers wrote more efficient code we wouldn't need so much computing power. there's probably a lot we can do in terms of WHAT gets processed rather than HOW it gets processed.
Long time subscriber but first time commenting, your videos has inspired me to go back to university to study electrical engineering as an adult learner. Thank you so much ❤
Hmmmm... The way I see it, the next step is full 3d. Not merely adding 3d features to existing 2d basic structures, but outright building those structures in 3d, floating anywhere in the volume of the chip, all the way from up against the pads, to down against the substrate. If you can additively manufacture a gate, an insulator, and a channel, you can (probably) additively manufacture a source and a drain. Maybe even a structurally weak breakaway layer to save substrate. Maybe mixing sizes on a single chip for power and stuff. Added bonus: if you can stack logic on top of itself, you need less chip area for the same device size, allowing the use of smaller (and hopefully easier) photomasks (at the expense of more of them). Though it might be time to abandon photomasks altogether in favor of scanning the pattern (resin 3d printers do this exact thing at macro-scale).
Your videos are absolutely amazing. Where do you get all this knowledge from? I'm taking mainly about electronics. I just want to find a way to increase my understanding of those topics.
At 11:32, I believe fin pitch is the distance from center to center (or side to side) of adjacent fins. The area between fins is for electrical isolation to prevent crosstalk.
The true geneous of FinFET was it allowed scaling using traditional equipment. The next generation when likely be far to complicated and difficult to yield to be economically viable apart for millitary applications. The next evolution to home computing will be multi processor systems and a return to multi GPU architecture. As for improved efficiency we are at the end.
Hopefully N2 has good yield. Unless there is a major improvment in power consumption, smaller chiplets with high yield coefficient will be needed for any significant advance in value to the end user. It has been almost 10 years since N32 and I still don't see much incentive to upgrade, as someone that had a home computer all through the '90s when 2 years without an upgrade was a long stretch,that is shocking. A decade for few more cores that I rarely need, maybe 20% boost in clock speed, AVX512, compatibility with slightly improved motherboards (PCIe and DRAM generation bump), and maybe 5% energy savings [whole machine], all for the low low price of 3 times what I paid for the n32 based machine.
Function Accelerated nanomaterial Engineering (FAME) focuses on nonconventional materials and devices incorporating nanostructures with quantum-level properties to enable analog, logic and memory devices for beyond-binary computation. Also financing their Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces and Novel Architectures (C-SPIN)
back in my school days (80's) asked my teacher why dont cars park themselves? My Teacher (Alan Bleasedale, i'll never forget you sir) replied.. "its already possible.. But it's a lot of cost. putting too much advancement into products that people cant realistically afford leaves a void. yes you a great thing, but you have no customers"
@@Palmit_ Yeah The same Fallacy present in all humanity lives there is many thing that or so called Artifacts has been created in the past that amaze us still this day but usually they only exist a few and only leader of a tribe, nation or a wealthy man in a nation with particular interest can afford it. Economic feasibility is what hold back innovations.
I really enjoy these videos. Can I ask if you have thought about doing a video on the rapid development of SerDes for semiconductors. As we continue to move bigger and bigger amounts of data we are going to need better solutions to move data as quickly as possible. I have been reading a lot about a company called Alphawave IP recently who do some really interesting and work were founded by ex intel employees.
This is really the key issue. If cost/transistor stops declining, ever smaller nodes will become increasingly niche. You will get more bang for the buck by just stacking 28nm chips. For everything other than the most power constrained devices, it would make little sense to go below 28nm.
The smaller transistors used less power because their capacitance was lower. There was a smaller amount of energy needed to transition the gate from off to on (or vice versa). This is what has enabled computers to become more powerful whilst not using more energy.
hey there's one thing i've been curious about and don't know where to find info on it. What are the current ideas on moving forward when EUV is too expensive to improve? Somewhere I heard a comment that there will be a change
With the last litography when you have multiple channels per gate... you can't control those channels individually then, right? What are the applications of that?
We've been dealing with the exclusionary aspect of electrons (i.e. one signal on one lead) and how to work around it for a long time now. I truly believe photonics will be the future. The tech is still very immature, but we're already got photonic AI chips and photonic data relays on integrated circuits. Once we can figure out how to do the same sort of general purpose Von Neumann architecture or something analogous it will just be a matter of materials science on how to construct them at smaller and smaller scales.
The good news is that once we’ll reach the electron minimum size, they’ll be forced to optimize the software and instruction sets rather than just shrink and add more transistors.
it is so insane that humans can draw a really small picture on a rock, zap it with lightning and make it do math
Yes but can it do cat videos?
Natural evolution of humans drawing on rocks over tens of thousands of years... :D
We're still cave men at heart :D
@@ChatGPT1111 OOoohh god bless you for asking about cats and videos because without cats what hair would we have to eat so god bless cats and hair and god bless god for making cats have hair well there are cats without hair so god bless the weirdos who bred hairless cats and the weirdos who buy them ohhhhhhhoh
OOOOOOOOOOOohhhhhhohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
yes it is amazing. universe created the most powerful object in existence and it only weighs 3 pounds and you can hold it in your hand. the human brain. we are extraordinary
I'm Brazilian, and I graduated in microelectronic processes.
Only 7 people graduates in this area per year in Brazil.
Later (about 10 years ago), I attended a course on chip design.
I'm among the select few who had some education in microelectronics in this country.
Needless to say that I never worked in the area. My diploma is gathering dust, and I actually work with software development, where I built a career out of grit and stubbornness.
I like to watch your videos, to reminesce about the 5 years of my life that I wasted studying those topics, how even back then the course was hopelessly obsolete, how now my knowledge is about 50 years out of phase with current trends (It was already 30 when I was a student).
It was a difficult course, with high turnover, and no hope of employment. I was a fool for going through it.
At very least it was State sponsored and I paid nothing.
brutal, and your country is headed by l*la now as well
its over for you
Did you applied to the overseas chip manufacturing firms?
Eu nem sabia que tínhamos um curso disso no país, era em qual universidade?
Semiconductor fabrication, only has industries in Asia region, particularly china taiwan korea.... unless you r in those countries, speak korean or mandarin... if not i do not foresee your country capable of producing any related job for it.
Do what ur country,Brazil good at...maybe burn down amazon, be farmer or play soccer...
Yes look into jobs in for example the US. They are building lots of new fabs here in the news recently, I can only imagine people with your knowledge is highly sought after. Doesn't hurt to apply and look into.
I'm in IT and worked in a university computing science department, and this is as good an explanation of the past, present, and future of transistors as I have heard.
Every leap forward begins with a "You son of a bitch, I'm in."
Hey I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy and am informed by your videos - love your choice of topics, sometimes quirky (Venera Program), sometimes highly topical (Hardware for AI) but always insightful. Your level of engagement with the physics and math hits just right for me. Congratulations and best wishes for a prosperous 2023!
Thank you, Mr. Horselover. I love horses too.
🐴
horselover fat as in from VALIS??
@@jesse4202 only one I know...
I became a grad student at UC Berkeley's EECS department in the Fall of 1984. Following my undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and med school, I wanted to know more about semiconductor device physics. I prepared for prelim exams with an undergrad course taught by professor Chenming Hu. He was a superb teacher and communicator. I subsequently learned he is also a superb human being. Professor Hu, if you are out there, this humble medical device scientist is great full for your teaching and the gift of putting to use the FinFET electronics to better manage heart diseases. God speed, professor.
Small correction: I was at a factory making military devices containing 3-D bipolar transistors and other devices, in MMIC's in the early 1980's. The difference was that they were much larger devices than the modern versions.
Babe wake up, there's a new Asianometry video
This made me lol. 😁
Well this meme is getting old real quick
Doggie, so we can both watch
@@curiodyssey3867 Only because you sleepy
fax lol
My commendations for how you manage to keep these videos both informative AND entertaining. I have no particular skills in CPU or semi-conductor architecture yet I find your videos fascinating. I'm a double STEM grad (physics/finance) so I know how tough it is to make subject matter like this appeal to specialists or students within the field, let alone casual observers like myself. Well done sir!
The 3D model at 6:25 is phenomenal. Your 3D animator should be out more often. ;-) Perfectly clear demonstration of the concept and hilarious. 💯
11:28 The fin pitch is distance between same feature to feature. The arrow points to fin space. Pitch = Width + Space. :-)
Thank you for this! I had to smile when you mentioned your father at NSC...that's where I worked first...at their first fab (I don't think we called them that at the time!) in Danbury CT
I fondly remember my father taking me to his office at National Semiconductor back when I was a child. I loved that campus.
I cranked the volume on my headphones to force this information into my brain. Asianometry does a stupendous job of informing, what was, what is, and what's will be. Technology keeps throwing curve balls, Asianometry shows us the pitch.
Epiphany! I had never thought to really crank the volume and FORCE the understanding deep into my brain. I like it.
Damn, the topic is hard, but I greatly appreciate your skill at explaining it. Thanks a lot!
Yeah which is why his non semiconductor/hardware videos has more views. Hopefully he gets paid more (cpm) for the high IQ videos which are his signature ones.
I like these videos. I am no engineer, but I understand the "problems and hurdles" with new processes and like knowing more details rather than "there are yield problems with the new technology"
Yes I'm also ignorant and found this video clear and simple (until about 3/4 the way through. ☺).
You are always so straight to the point and it is so calming to watch your videos…
Another outstanding video, great summary and great visuals.
Slight correction: Intel moved to high k metal gate for 45nm. Their 32nm node was a shrink of 45nm, the second high k metal gate node, and, as you noted, final planar node.
Samsung tried to squeeze one more planar process for 20nm, but it was a disaster. 14nm yielded far better with finFETs.
„14nm“ is 20 with FinFETs, there was no shrink. This was the point there Intel was a node „behind“, because people only look on marketing numbers.
Everyone forgets that DARPA is often the mother of our modern invention era. They only focus on where commercial production ends up. A whole era of innovation in technology usually begins at DARPA
Very well written and paced, love the narrative! If I can make a suggestion, for those of us viewing at night or on a home projector, it would be great to show article screenshots in dark mode or at least a lower contrast background (something like the warm brown color of parchment) to reduce the sudden switching between graphics / photos / video and the full blast of a 255-255-255 bright white page of paper.
That box illustration was.......a treat
Great video, saw you got 400k subscribers now too! I remember when you only had like 40k but the videos were the same high quality and well researched as they are now. Glad to see you finally get the viewers/subs this level of content really deserves
Professor ... Hu? Does he have a PhD, could you not have added a "Dr Hu" caption? Oh the missed opportunity to start the New Year right!
Happy 2023*CE !
Another great video. Thank you for the effort you put into these and happy New Year 2023.
I was under the impression that atomic layer deposition (ALD) was already widely used during the implementation of HfOx for gate dielectrics.
You would be correct.
Happy New Year, thanks for all the hard work you put it in these videos, take care
I love this channel! Keep up the excellent work.
Loving your videos, Happy New Year from the UK.
It’s nearly twenty years since I was in the semiconductor industry, your videos give me an excellent insight into modern developments. Thank you for taking the time to make them.
"Hu's team invented it."
"I'm asking YOU whose team invented it!"
in spite of all the terrible going on in the world, its things like this that make you think that its really a great time to be alive and seeing all this happen.
Well, statistically speaking there was no better time to be alive. Never has a larger percentage of the human population lived in peace, didn't starve and so on. Problem is that nowadays you have the means to inform you about all the crap that happens anyways.
@@Noise-Bomb that is true but human brains are wired to react far stronger to threats and negative emotions than positive ones. Its a beneficial survival strategy in the wild but anachronistic in modern society
Thanks for that explanation, I kind of actually understood this one a bit. Like in buildings, each floor you build comes free as you pay for the lot size only once. But the higher you go the more they cost per floor. Charles
Kind of, kind of not. In architecture, each new floor costs marginally so little compared to the marginal value it adds that it makes sense to build higher. A more apt analogy is that building higher was what they did before hitting the limitations described in the video. So finfets is as if now everyone would have to build cantilever buildings or buildings with holes in them to pass wind flow, to compensate for not being able to build higher. So in my opinion examples of "finfet buildings" might be The Link in Dubai (cantilever skybridge between two buildings) or 432 Park Avenue in NYC (a very tall building in comparison to its footprint.)
Th animation is a definite major boost in your videos, keep it going !
Cutting edge Cardboard Animation Design !
Just want to thank you for making this content!
There is not a lot of quality content on the industry I both work and am interested a lot and it's great to have something where I can say, hey I have worked on this or I have seen this or I found that interesting as well.
I have shared this channel to so many customers and colleaugues I work with and shared on every unviersity or workshop lecture I gave, You are amazing!
I always had the idea of starting content creation on Semicon in the back of my mind, and this is really inspiring!
You do a SUPER human job of taking theese abstract concepts and making them readily available to all. I am a technologist with almost foury years in semiconductors and learn something everytime I tune into your channel. Thank you for all your hard work!
Awesome content as usual, spent 16 years in semi as equipment tech, late 90s to early 2000s started in military ceramic packaging and ended up in R&d fab dry etch, your content is fantastic thanks
Executive summary: Great video!
As a software person working closeto hardware I know much of the information in your video but not necessarily the background such as history or who invented what an its great to see all this information to be presente in around 15 min. Considering you also need to edit etc. these videos I'm sure you have Snowwhite's dwarves and many more minions working for you in the background ;-)
Excellent work on explaining a highly complex subject.
Congrats on 400K subs!
Really nice and interesting video, as always! Looking forward to your video on the next gen technologies involving superlattices and atomic layer deposition.
This is really great -- well done and thank you!
I've been struggling with this topic for a while, thanks for the straightforward explanation
Nice video, this info reminds me some words in the datasheets of some discrete power semiconductors transistors like: TrenchFET (Vishay), HexFET (Infineon-Int.Rect), SuperMesh (ST), HiperFET (IXYS) and CM2 (CREE).
Some techonologies are for lowering the RDS_on and other to withstand high open voltage (some mosfet are rated to 1.7 kV OMG!)
It was great when the first HexFETs came out by IR, I quickly used them in my designs. Happy 2023 to you.
@@favesongslist Happy new year, I think HexFET was like (more or less) GaN or SiC of today
@@tejonBiker Yes it was, It was a big improvement at the time.
I always thought HexFET sounded weird but didn't look it up until today. Turns out that it indeed consists of a hexagonal lattice as the name might imply. Zeptobars even has a die shot of it.
that rabbit painting
That was awesome video! Thanks and happy new year! I think at the moment the computing power in smartphones is sufficient to do all things I could think of. We are lucky that physics allows to produce stuff like modern smartphones without spending too much money, this limit could have been reached couple of years ago and that would mean laggy gps, slow low res youtube and no 3d smartphone graphics and no refresh rates above 60hz, with all mentioned stuff being available before that limit I am not worried too much. I might be a bit of a oldtimer (I just had my birthday today finished 38 years)
As developing new nodes gets more expensive, it'll just happen slower. Given time, paying for it is no question. Once the entire market has bought the last node and doesn't want more of it, the payoff for coming up with node n+1 becomes astronomical. Right now that's not the case, previous node is just a few years old, and node n+2 is coming soon enough, no problem to skip a node or few.
10:30 This is about a decade after Digh Hisamoto's publication.
i feel like if programmers wrote more efficient code we wouldn't need so much computing power. there's probably a lot we can do in terms of WHAT gets processed rather than HOW it gets processed.
Another superior video to start the new year!
Long time subscriber but first time commenting, your videos has inspired me to go back to university to study electrical engineering as an adult learner. Thank you so much ❤
@whatapk.17078 Do people who make these bots think people are idiots or something?
Hmmmm...
The way I see it, the next step is full 3d. Not merely adding 3d features to existing 2d basic structures, but outright building those structures in 3d, floating anywhere in the volume of the chip, all the way from up against the pads, to down against the substrate. If you can additively manufacture a gate, an insulator, and a channel, you can (probably) additively manufacture a source and a drain. Maybe even a structurally weak breakaway layer to save substrate. Maybe mixing sizes on a single chip for power and stuff.
Added bonus: if you can stack logic on top of itself, you need less chip area for the same device size, allowing the use of smaller (and hopefully easier) photomasks (at the expense of more of them). Though it might be time to abandon photomasks altogether in favor of scanning the pattern (resin 3d printers do this exact thing at macro-scale).
How about the heat ??. Even 2d structure
Make enormous heat 🤔🤔
I'm emailing this video to my nano fab prof! Keep up the fantastic work!
Great show. And great job. Love these videos
Thanks much for such a wonderful explanation!
Your videos are absolutely amazing. Where do you get all this knowledge from? I'm taking mainly about electronics. I just want to find a way to increase my understanding of those topics.
~ 7:30 - I recall reading on "trench transistor" proposals in, I believe, McGraw-Hill's "Electronics" journal.
At 11:32, I believe fin pitch is the distance from center to center (or side to side) of adjacent fins. The area between fins is for electrical isolation to prevent crosstalk.
The true geneous of FinFET was it allowed scaling using traditional equipment. The next generation when likely be far to complicated and difficult to yield to be economically viable apart for millitary applications. The next evolution to home computing will be multi processor systems and a return to multi GPU architecture. As for improved efficiency we are at the end.
It's great to be alive in the future!
As always, fantastic work, thank you.
Who needs 3D animation? When you can innovate with boxes! Love the videos
always enjoy your videos!
I like Hu Cunming’s book about the basics of semiconductor devices
Extremely interesting one! Thanks!
thanks for another great video about super technical subject
Loved the animations.
Hopefully N2 has good yield. Unless there is a major improvment in power consumption, smaller chiplets with high yield coefficient will be needed for any significant advance in value to the end user.
It has been almost 10 years since N32 and I still don't see much incentive to upgrade, as someone that had a home computer all through the '90s when 2 years without an upgrade was a long stretch,that is shocking. A decade for few more cores that I rarely need, maybe 20% boost in clock speed, AVX512, compatibility with slightly improved motherboards (PCIe and DRAM generation bump), and maybe 5% energy savings [whole machine], all for the low low price of 3 times what I paid for the n32 based machine.
This is all amazing!! we live in awesome sometimes. Thanks Asianometry.
Absolutely fascinating - love your videos!!! Wonder what darpas cooking up now 🤔 🧑🍳
Function Accelerated nanomaterial Engineering (FAME) focuses on nonconventional materials and devices incorporating nanostructures with quantum-level properties to enable analog, logic and memory devices for beyond-binary computation.
Also financing their Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces and Novel Architectures (C-SPIN)
I like zero hype ending. No corporate channel would do that, as they need to lie if this means more engagement
Great videos as always
Good summary and video. FYI, your arrow showed the FIN space cd, not the FIN pitch.
I choose to believe "GAAFET" is pronounced "Gay-Fet" because it sounds funny
back in my school days (80's) asked my teacher why dont cars park themselves? My Teacher (Alan Bleasedale, i'll never forget you sir) replied.. "its already possible.. But it's a lot of cost. putting too much advancement into products that people cant realistically afford leaves a void. yes you a great thing, but you have no customers"
edit: "yes you HAVE a great thing, but you have no customers"
@@Palmit_ Yeah The same Fallacy present in all humanity lives there is many thing that or so called Artifacts has been created in the past that amaze us still this day but usually they only exist a few and only leader of a tribe, nation or a wealthy man in a nation with particular interest can afford it. Economic feasibility is what hold back innovations.
Is there an online course or book that I can use to learn all this? I really like your videos but they are not structured. Would gladly pay btw.
Thanks Jon
I really enjoy these videos. Can I ask if you have thought about doing a video on the rapid development of SerDes for semiconductors. As we continue to move bigger and bigger amounts of data we are going to need better solutions to move data as quickly as possible. I have been reading a lot about a company called Alphawave IP recently who do some really interesting and work were founded by ex intel employees.
This is really the key issue. If cost/transistor stops declining, ever smaller nodes will become increasingly niche. You will get more bang for the buck by just stacking 28nm chips.
For everything other than the most power constrained devices, it would make little sense to go below 28nm.
Thanks for making this! It's not just a fad.
You're an inspiration. Thanks for making these videos. - sophmore ECE student
They'll probably go with nested octangonal offset so you can closely pack 9 gates per sequence.
The smaller transistors used less power because their capacitance was lower. There was a smaller amount of energy needed to transition the gate from off to on (or vice versa). This is what has enabled computers to become more powerful whilst not using more energy.
And now in 2023 we have gfxs with 4nm processors, everytime we think we hit the wall, some geniuses finds a new way.
damn... this is so well researched.
So NVIDIA is just getting in early and conditioning the consumer market for future higher prices with $1000+ consumer GPU boards...
Amazing content on amazing technologies
hey there's one thing i've been curious about and don't know where to find info on it.
What are the current ideas on moving forward when EUV is too expensive to improve?
Somewhere I heard a comment that there will be a change
Absolutely fascinating
I remember there was a 1979 Scientific American article about 3-D chip architecture...but cooling made it impractical!
What did the source say to the gate?
"That other guy is such a drain."
5:20
“You son of a bitch, I’m in!”
With the last litography when you have multiple channels per gate... you can't control those channels individually then, right? What are the applications of that?
Always the best-est
Watching this on my phone while realizing what is actually going on inside is pretty mind blowing.
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@12:25, looks like a dental x-ray
6:25 What’s the pest control cockroach boxes are used as illustration for channel and gate? :-)
Thanks!
well explained. thanks
We've been dealing with the exclusionary aspect of electrons (i.e. one signal on one lead) and how to work around it for a long time now. I truly believe photonics will be the future. The tech is still very immature, but we're already got photonic AI chips and photonic data relays on integrated circuits. Once we can figure out how to do the same sort of general purpose Von Neumann architecture or something analogous it will just be a matter of materials science on how to construct them at smaller and smaller scales.
The good news is that once we’ll reach the electron minimum size, they’ll be forced to optimize the software and instruction sets rather than just shrink and add more transistors.
Alternate video title:
“Why the 1080Ti was so bad ass.”
6:16 Funny that this picture using “roach killer” as demonstration. 🤣