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The name used to correspond to the minimum gate length down to ~14nm. But the smallest feature size in 3nm (i.e. minimum gate length) is certainly much smaller than 24nm.



OK, so in "3nm", what is the minimum gate length? And, how many silicon atoms is that?


I couldn't find the information readily available online so I'm not sure I can answer that (all of this stuff is under NDA). But even then, I could only tell you the "drawn" dimension, which is what gets shown on the screen. There are a lot of digital and physical processing steps that change the actual dimensions. Once something is manufactured inevitably one of the IC teardown companies will do a cross section and publish all of this information.




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