In the electronics industry, the term “process shrink” is often used to refer to when a semiconductor company migrates an existing design to a smaller process technology.In many cases, this is an upgrade path for reducing the cost, size, and power consumption of chips. An example of a “simple” process shrink is that of Texas Instruments’ 720-MHz TMS320C6416 DSP. Moving the C6416 DSP from a 130-nm CMOS process to 90-nm resulted in a price reduction of 50 percent.
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