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It really feels like this should be illegal.

• gruez 5y ago
  Why? The average consumer doesn't care whether the semiconductor in their smartphones are 7nm or 5nm, they care about speed and power efficiency. Anyone who does care about feature size/density would know this and wouldn't be misled. Besides, they themselves don't care about feature sizes either, they only really care about other performance characteristics (eg. density, power consumption, switching speed), not some superficial metric like "nm".
  • staticassertion 5y ago
    Because you're advertising a product in a way that's deceitful, obviously. If I sell you a CPU and I say "yeah it's 4.5ghz", and it turns out it runs at 1.6ghz, it should be illegal to say "ghz is just a brand, it's marketing".
    • duskwuff 5y ago
      Semiconductor processes aren't a feature that's generally advertised to end users. I've never heard a mobile phone or computer manufacturer describing their devices as having a "5 nm processor", for example. The clients who are seeing these descriptions (like, purchasing managers in electronics manufacturers) are generally aware of these issues.
      • staticassertion 5y ago
        So it's just marketing and therefor it's ok to lie, because it's not marketing and people who see it will know it's a lie?