<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lwneal</author><text>At this rate they&amp;#x27;ll be manufacturing 0nm chips soon, and in a decade they&amp;#x27;ll be on -1nm.&lt;p&gt;But despite the weird naming scheme, it&amp;#x27;s clear from transistor density [1] and GPU prices [2] that foundries are still making progress in transistors per dollar. That progress is just barely beginning to make large neural networks (Stable Diffusion, vision and speech systems, language model AIs) deployable in consumer applications.&lt;p&gt;It might not matter whether your cell phone renders this page in 1ms or 10ms, but the difference between talking to a 20B parameter language model and a 200B net is night and day [3]. If TSMC&amp;#x2F;Samsung&amp;#x2F;Intel can squeeze out just one or two more nodes, then by the middle of the century we might have limited general-purpose AI in every home and office.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Transistor_count#GPUs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Transistor_count#GPUs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;price&amp;#x2F;video-card&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;price&amp;#x2F;video-card&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;textsynth.com&amp;#x2F;playground.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;textsynth.com&amp;#x2F;playground.html&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough</title><url>https://www.edn.com/tsmc-approaching-1-nm-with-2d-materials-breakthrough/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kken</author><text>so this is again one of these &amp;quot;material x was slightly better in a lab experiment&amp;quot; -&amp;gt; &amp;quot;we conclude that it certainly can be used as part of a complex technology&amp;quot; press releases.&lt;p&gt;I am not too fond of this, but obviously thats the easiest way to explain the significance of research results.&lt;p&gt;Getting a new material into a semiconductor manufacturing process takes years or even decades. Whatever material will be in TSMCs &amp;quot;1nm&amp;quot; process, it is already known.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough</title><url>https://www.edn.com/tsmc-approaching-1-nm-with-2d-materials-breakthrough/</url></story>