> Some time back, around the 34nm era, CPU components stopped getting materialy smaller. > Transistor count plateaued. No. Transistor count has continued to i

> Some time back, around the 34nm era, CPU components stopped getting materialy smaller. > Transistor count plateaued. No. Transistor count has continued to increase. The "nm" numbers still correlate with overall transistor density. The change is that transistor density is no longer a function purely of the narrowest line width that the lithography can produce. Transistors have been changing shape and aren't just optical shrinks of the previous node.