The claim I've heard is that intel 7 (previously 10nm) is approximately as good as tsmc's 7nm (but which 7nm?). It sounds like most reviewers seem willing to a

The claim I've heard is that intel 7 (previously 10nm) is approximately as good as tsmc's 7nm (but which 7nm?). It sounds like most reviewers seem willing to accept that it's at least a good enough match that you're unlikely to do better. I mean, those literal nm measurements had no reasonably obvious basis in measurement for either intel or TSMC even before the intel rebrand, so... It'd be nice if they advertised with a few real benchmarks (e.g. logic density + sram density, some kind of clockspeed metric, some kind of powerleakage metric)... but as is, it's just a branch anyhow. Whether it "is" a 10nm process depends on what your definition of "is" is ;-). It's certainly not the case that a transistor is 10nm large, not even close.