>Or do those nanometers not translate? It really Depends: Smaller means, smaller package, more transistors/sq and less power-consumption. But if you can affor

>Or do those nanometers not translate? It really Depends: Smaller means, smaller package, more transistors/sq and less power-consumption. But if you can afford to build a bigger chip to have the same transistor count, and you are ok with the higher power-consumption you have in theory the same performance, sometimes you don't even want 'too' small transistors, an example is radiation-hardening.