> Power regulators doesn't need small transistors, it wants big nice and fat transistors.
Is it possible to make bigger transistors using a smaller process? Just because you are using saying a 7nm process, can't you still make a transistor (like if you needed) that was the same size as it was on 90nm? I think of newer processes as merely being more precise so you could still do the old designs on them, you are just unecessarily tying up the newer machines... but concievably in the future you could just start using 5nm process to keep producing 30 nm and 90 nm chips just to consolidate production lines, non?
Is it possible to make bigger transistors using a smaller process? Just because you are using saying a 7nm process, can't you still make a transistor (like if you needed) that was the same size as it was on 90nm? I think of newer processes as merely being more precise so you could still do the old designs on them, you are just unecessarily tying up the newer machines... but concievably in the future you could just start using 5nm process to keep producing 30 nm and 90 nm chips just to consolidate production lines, non?
I know nothing about this, so I'm just asking.