You're right they are all hitting the wall at the same time. The 7 nm node is going to be a problem node for all of the companies [1]. Popular opinion is that I

You're right they are all hitting the wall at the same time. The 7 nm node is going to be a problem node for all of the companies [1]. Popular opinion is that Intel always has enough tricks up it's sleeve to effectively be a node ahead (even when on paper it isn't), but I've never been able to find a source on that. But honestly the industry has been hitting this wall for over a decade, and making less progress then it appears on paper (through not fault of their own. Moore's law has been dead for a long time now. "Node size" has only a loose relation to the size of any structure on the chip and is really just a marketing term. [1] http://semiengineering.com/7nm-market-heats-up/ http://semiengineering.com/7nm-market-heats-up/