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		nickysielicki 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Hu... Process node naming is completely made up. It’s been this way for a very long time. https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-by... It has nothing to do with the size of anything.

linotype 5 days ago [–]

In fact, process node naming has always been made up.

nickysielicki 5 days ago | [–]

Not really? The physical gate length matched the node name all throughout the 2000s.

linotype 5 days ago | | [–]

even that concept was in fact made up.

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