With the development of the modern technology industry, the overall trend of manufacturing processes has been getting smaller and smaller since the birth of chips. So the smaller the chip, the better? Is it better to have a smaller chip size? Let’s find out together!

Generally speaking, the smaller the size of the transistor, the smaller the power consumption and the faster the switching frequency can be achieved, which has certain benefits in terms of circuit performance. Just like many small mobile phones nowadays are inferior to their big brothers in the past, the smaller the size of the chip, the more sophisticated the manufacturing process used is. However, the smaller the size of the chip, there are still some shortcomings. For example, if the size of the traditional planar transistor is made smaller, its short channel effect and quantum tunneling effect will be more serious. To put it more simply, the switch is too small, which can easily cause leakage current. In fact, the biggest advantage of reducing the size of the chip is the reduction in area and cost.

Maybe one drawing could originally cut out about 10 chips, but now it may be possible to cut out 100 chips. In this way, the profit will be greatly increased, and the area of damaged chips around it will also be reduced. Profit is the strongest driving force for technological development, which is why chips have shrunk from the micron level to the nanometer level in just a few decades. For factories, the smaller the chip manufacturing process, it means that the cost of equipment and materials will increase.

For any electronic product, there is no most advanced manufacturing process, only the most suitable manufacturing process. Because factors such as chip area, power consumption, and cost will all be selected based on the application scenarios of the final product. For example, although the chip area is small, its economical tube density will be smaller, which will cause insufficient heat dissipation. If this type of chip is used in a mobile phone, problems will occur during game play. Hot and stuck.

All in all, the size of the chip area still needs to be selected according to the scenario in which the product is used.

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