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One extra complicating factor is that each process node will have several different transistor libraries that make different tradeoffs between density and power/frequency. So a smartphone SoC will tend to have a higher MT/mm^2 number than a server CPU or GPU.


Yeah, the difference is more or less a factor of 3. The node gives you a smallest transistor size but making some transistors bigger than others lets you reach higher frequencies.




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