TSMC FinFlex: How Chips are made Worse to get Better
A deep-dive into FinDepopulation & TSMCs FinFlex technology. How the height of transistors is keeping Moore’s Law alive.
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0:00 Intro
0:50 NMOS, PMOS & CMOS Transistors
3:34 3D FinFETs & Transistor Height
6:48 Logic Gates & Standard Cells
9:54 Process Node Cell Libraries
13:31 How Fin Depopulation works
14:48 FinFET Process Node Scaling
18:34 TSMC FinFlex & Standard Cell Height
23:22 The future of chip design
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TSMC FinFlex: How Chips are made Worse to get Better