Russia: Sanctions aren’t doing shit, we’re actually better off without the outside world
Also Russia: Hey never mind about the toilets, let me show you how we’ve mastered Nintendo 64 technology
masteredstarted working with
The 350 nanometer process is a level of semiconductor process technology that was reached in the 1995–1996 timeframe
The new stuff is 3nm
350 nm is massive and ancient relative to new processes, but the name of a new process stopped physically meaning anything a while ago. for instance, the 3 nm process smallest distance between traces is only 24 nm.
now the industry just names a new process when enough techniques for improving performance (without much actual size difference) exist.
I think this youtuber might have achieved similar nm with his DIY setup, but I don’t remember. He’s using a different process though.
breaking taps is very impressive, but sam zeloof made it quite a bit further, he made his own packaged IC. now he runs a startup called atomic semi, that is trying to use electron beam lithography for prototyping.
Soon they’ll be able to run Doom.
Not to piss on the party, but ATmega328p chips that we use in Arduinos, if I am not incorrect, is based on 350nm process, or you just scale to that size and accept the inefficiencies. People have been doing amazing stuff with worse chips in the past. Yeah modern features in modern chips are amazing but if I was a soldier my slightly smart (Arduino standards) weapon is still a deadly weapon in my arsenal
It’s kind of an embarrassing brag, though, like saying you’re finally toilet trained. Good for you, that will help, but the rest of us are way past that.
