_______ __ _______ | | |.---.-..----.| |--..-----..----. | | |.-----..--.--.--..-----. | || _ || __|| < | -__|| _| | || -__|| | | ||__ --| |___|___||___._||____||__|__||_____||__| |__|____||_____||________||_____| on Gopher (inofficial) URI Visit Hacker News on the Web COMMENT PAGE FOR: URI Intel's 14A Magic Bullet: Directed Self-Assembly (DSA) abecedarius wrote 8 hours 56 min ago: Keeps referring to high-NA and low-NA. What's NA? (Numerical aperture is all that comes to mind.) tester756 wrote 8 hours 54 min ago: In optics, the numerical aperture (NA) of an optical system is a dimensionless number that characterizes the range of angles over which the system can accept or emit light. URI [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_aperture ohazi wrote 8 hours 55 min ago: Numerical aperture URI [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_aperture abecedarius wrote 8 hours 52 min ago: Heh, edit jinx. This answer leaves me almost as at sea, so I guess my time's not best spent on this article. Thanks. j_walter wrote 9 hours 2 min ago: >Customers will use 18A to dip their toes in the Intel waters with less critical chips that are not core to their business Yeah...how many customers will use the most advanced tech for "less critical chips". The real question is not whether Intel's tech works...it's if they can mass produce it efficiently. 7nm worked just fine on a chip by chip basis...but they struggled for years on getting the yield and output to place where customers would want it. deeth_starr_v wrote 8 hours 42 min ago: Agreed. Intel has pulled some amazing rabbits out of their hat over the years when they fell behind. I want to believe. If they pull it off this will be an amazing reinvention. But we have to be honest the smart money is probably on Intel being fabless when 18A and 14A drags on and they need to rely on TSMC Workaccount2 wrote 9 hours 45 min ago: Fantastic article with a $500 paywall halfway through. oof. mensetmanusman wrote 9 hours 27 min ago: Most valuable information is hidden behind walls :) DIR <- back to front page