> Yes, smaller devices enable better designs. Which is probably why AMD has better IPC now. > they called it "tick-tock" which is the cycle of developing a n

> Yes, smaller devices enable better designs. Which is probably why AMD has better IPC now. > they called it "tick-tock" which is the cycle of developing a new microarchitecture on one node and then porting to a smaller node. The whole tick-tock cycle has been interrupted by the 10nm failure which has almost certainly thrown off their architecture development cycle. It's not about moving cores to a smaller node its about knowing whether you're designing for 10nm or 14 nm.