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Also not a hardware guy, but the issue seems to revolve around density, intel puts transistors on a chip "like this" the other guys do it "l i k e t h i s". T
by jfoutz 9y ago
Also not a hardware guy, but the issue seems to revolve around density, intel puts transistors on a chip "like this" the other guys do it "l i k e t h i s". They can make small things, but haven't worked out how to really pack them in next to each other and work reliably.
- deepnotderp 9y agoThis isn't really true, there's a lot of marketing misinformation on both sides. Both with Intel and with TSMC/Samsung/GloFo. The thing is that with "14nm/16nm", the front end of the line (FEOL) was with FinFETs at a "true' 14/16nm density, but the backend of the line (BEOL) and interconnects were at the older node. But this doesn't necessarily mean that Intel has a moral high ground here, since they've had a lower than industry standard density from "32nm" and "40nm" and below. TL;DR: "nm" node names are basically useless now, just know that TSMC 10nm isn't a production node and TSMC "7nm" ~= Intel "10nm"