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		eternauta3k on March 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TSMC Details 5 nm Won't analog design advance until it's able to use these smaller nodes?

baybal2 on March 22, 2020 [–]

Some analog devices are feeling much better on planar processes for lack of decent finfet implementations.

If you want to add layers to just make analog devices, it's not so cheap, and will damage an already bad yield.

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