Quote from: dyask on September 01, 2014, 04:10:18 AM

Quote from: bbeesley on September 01, 2014, 01:02:27 AM

Quote from: Mabsark on August 31, 2014, 03:15:05 PM

The only way anyone except Intel is making 14nm bitcoin ASICs is if they pay a shit load of money to Intel.

or to someone....14nm is a pretty significant scaling hurdle as we are starting to build chips with components that are only a few atoms across

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/97469-is-14nm-the-end-of-the-road-for-silicon-lithography

Very interesting article. However, it may be possible for companies to get Intel to make the chips. I expect that would be very costly though. Probably currently way out to the reach of smaller companies.

It is possible for external companies to use Intel's fabs. They're making the Stratix10 14nm FPGAs for Altera and 14nm SoCs for Panasonic to name 2 customers.