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> If Intel technically leapfrog TSMC and their 18nm is better than TSMC 20nm this year but;

Think you mean 1.8nm, aka 18A. We're way past 18nm and 20nm.



How long ago did nm numbers stop being descriptions of size of chip and start being purely marketing names? About a decade?


https://www.extremetech.com/computing/296154-how-are-process...

"For a long time, gate length (the length of the transistor gate) and half-pitch (half the distance between two identical features on a chip) matched the process node name, but the last time this was true was 1997"


Oh wow, I didn't realise it has been that long! Thanks for sharing


Same here, I would have put it much more recently than that; I wonder how long before we'll be into negative numbers...


While it is true that the nm numbers are bullshit, using the same made-up number helps keep the conversation on track, haha.


Yeah. That is what happen when I post it just before I felt asleep. Too late now can't edit it.




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