Never say never...

I also would love to own a 12" transistor :D

Go big or go home!

I'm now wondering how large a ~7-22nm detail-sized chip at 12" would be :)

I'm guessing relativistic restrictions would hamper its clock speed, but presumably still quicker than 'chips in Minecraft'!

If I've got this right, according to chatGPT, an early-to-mid-year i7 would be in the ballpark of 800m in length, hahah.

That does not seem right, depending on how you calculate, 100 km to 1000 km seems more realistic. The ratio between 7 nm and 12" is 43.5 million, that makes a 20 mm x 10 mm die 870 km x 435 km. But as we all know 7 nm is just a marketing term, so for a more realistic estimate, you have to pick some feature and scale that up to 12". That will bring you down an order of magnitude or so, but you are not going to end up in the meters range.

I was going for 15nm as a base and have absolutely more than likely got my maths wrong, but if there's one way to get an answer on the internet, it's to post an incorrect one ;)

So, thank you.

Cerebras is calling and they want their dinner plates back.

Maybe they've built a 12 inch fab. For Makers or sometging.

So 12,000,000 nanometre wires (in imperial)