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90 nanometres lives and thrives - official
NO-ONE from any of the big semiconductor companies has satisfactorily explained why they mix and match old fashioned measurements like inches with new-fangled French contraptions based on the metre.
But as sure as eggs is eggs, they still do. So we weren't surprised to see a press release from the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) saying it's just shipped its one millionth 12-inch (0.000063130 8 leagues) 90 nanometre wafer in record time.
The record? The record is 53 months (139,284,000,000 milliseconds), compared to the previous record for .13µ, which, TSMC said, was 58 months (0.0048333 millennia).
Said Jason Chen, VP of corporate development at TSMC: "The 90 nm (nanometre) process runs in both TSMC Gigafabs, Fab 12 and Fab 14. The company is also developing a an enhanced 90 nanometre process, which should deliver even greater benefits in performance, cost, and efficiency." µ
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So when will someone call there fab the FAB 88 and start Killing Bill?

I believe they were called the Crazy 88, not Fab 88.
It's simple, the english language has no own words for things smaller than an inch.
So until they go below the inch, and sometimes 1/2 and 3/8th of an inch, they switch to nanometer.
Another strange thing is that for plumbing-parts and LCD screens they use parts of an inch and inch in my EU country where they normally exclusively use metric, which I think is pretty sad, especially in the LCD case since LCD's are new and the whole world agreed to go metric many years ago.
I guess the IT personal lacks the expertise and technology to convert to metric, or they fear rounding things?
W: Ever heard of mils?