"Potentially larger price tags" ?! Its not potential, it is already happening! Any PC enthusiast knows this. Edit: This wasn't in an angry tone, just a bit shocked.
I like your videos, but as a semiconductor engineer, that 1 dollar/100 dollar stuff is just bullshit or bad investigation. Chips vary widely, there are chips that cost 2 3 cents, processors that cost 300 400. You can't just say a chip costed 1 and now costs 100...which chip?
Can’t wait to see “tens of billions of transistors in just a few nanometers!” For the record, the state of the art TSMC N5 is about 13 billion transistors in 100 mm² (based on the Apple M1).
It's disingenuous to suggest prices are 100x what they were. Discretes and commodity parts have always sold for pennies, and complex digital parts like CPUs have always been expensive.
Just noticed a small error. She said that electricity flows when the gates are open and stops when the gates are closed. Actually, with circuits, the electricity flows when the gates are closed They should be called Bridges instead of Gates. When the bridge is up traffic stops and when the bridge comes down the cars can move again. Sorry to nitpick but it is important fot people to understand how electricity works.
"The needs of life are fundamental everywhere. Advanced technology does not relieve you of these needs entirely and in fact can escalate them tremendously. Do you think that great technological societies in the universe are not desperate for resources, resources that now they cannot create themselves but must trade for and negotiate for, from far, far away? They have lost their self-determination. They are controlled now by the very networks of trade upon which they depend." A quote from The Greater Community book, by Marshall Vian Summers.
There is an error in this video. Electrons flow when a circuit is closed, and stops the flow when open. This is a basic rule in electronics.
And this is one reason why I support more train infrastructure over electric car growth. Each train needs a fraction of the chips to move the same number of people.
I never imagined that the reason Moore's Law would finally be broken is because of the inability to produce the electronics. Up until now, a doubling of transistors every two years has been possible BECAUSE these devices could be produced. It looks like the "quantum ceiling" has been put on hold for the time being.
I work in the EMS industry and it's absolutely brutal.
I really want a deep dive by seeker on the fabrication of cutting-edge semiconductor fabrication, how everything works, where it all comes from, and how it's formed the tech industry we know today. It'd not only be informative, but also knowing how mind-mendingly advanced the fabrication process is, it's really fun too!
She is the best host on Seeker!
1:12 When we're talking about tens of billions of transistors in the space of a few nanometers !! I'm sorry what !!!
0:44 You got that backwards. Switches conduct electricity when they're CLOSED, and do not conduct electricity when OPEN.
"Slowly chipping away..." 🤣 I see what you did there, Maren! Very nice.
Yet another reason why hiding in our homes is not a viable strategy for more than a few weeks… “to flatten the curve” Remember that lie?
@0:54 Transistors are placed side by side.. Not overlapping (LMAO).. the only thing overlapping is metal layers (and possibly a high up via.. but that depends on the tech).
remember when ibm, motorala, Texas instruments where some of the biggest chip manufacture. some things should not be just full on capitalized.
Short. Informative. Plus a cutie... big win.
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