Prior to 2015, Intel believed they would have production ready, 7nm chips by 2018 using EUV, which would indeed have catapulted them far ahead of the competitio

Prior to 2015, Intel believed they would have production ready, 7nm chips by 2018 using EUV, which would indeed have catapulted them far ahead of the competition. Obviously, many people were skeptical about this, but if it had worked out I don't think we'd be having this conversation, nor would people have cared about them missing the 10nm target.