It seems reasonably likely that they will succeed. Intel's 10nm and its 7nm are very different beasts with 7nm arguably being a lot simpler thanks to EUV and a

It seems reasonably likely that they will succeed. Intel's 10nm and its 7nm are very different beasts with 7nm arguably being a lot simpler thanks to EUV and a 2x density transistor improvement goal (vs 2.7x for 10nm). The lack of EUV and very high density goals for 10nm meant they had to do a lot of multi-patterning which ended up screwing their yields. That plus the uncharted waters of using cobalt interconnects rather than copper meant it was basically Intel getting overconfident and being too ambitious for their own good.