[boddu]

A 1.4nm chip offers significant performance and capability improvements over a 4nm chip, primarily due to increased transistor density. This allows for more powerful and efficient on-device AI processing, enabling new features and capabilities on devices like an iPhone without relying on cloud-based services

[dyauspitr]

Is this chatGPT? Just want to check on a hunch.

[thimabi]

I find it amusing how we’ve come from treating AI as a novelty to developing a sense of how it writes in the space of a few months. That parent comment doesn’t even have the famed em dashes, for instance. Still, we are able to recognize it as AI-generated just by looking at its syntax.

[NewJazz]

For me it is the lack of content, the blandness of the statement. You can tell it is just saying vague statements that could be true if you substituted 14nm and 8nm for 4nm and 1.4nm.

[k4rli]

Looks like it's also his first post in a year. Feels full AI generated.

[NoOn3]

But at the same time, the cost of manufacturing may increase. But I have no data on this, it's just a guess.

[pjc50]

It will increase, but amortization tends to make that fall off over time. Also the newer processes tend to result in smaller die sizes.

[esseph]

Production of anything on a new line is expensive, doesn't matter if it is chips or cheeze-its

[preisschild]

But you also get more transistors per wafer

[nine_k]

Depends on your yield, actually :( You get more transistors per square mm.