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This 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/16n
by deepnotderp 9y ago
This 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"