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General questions about computer chips and chipsets in retro hardware. Use a specific chip’s tag instead if available.

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Why did the VIC-II and SID use 6 µm technology in the era of 3 µm and 1.5 µm?

, shrink the layout and manufacture it with a different process, so you need a really good business case to make a new version of a chip When the process shrinks the logic parts of the chip shrink (and … If a chip has significant analog parts the die size will not get much smaller with a process change. …
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