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It's less that they're marketing deceptively than that the measure they were using stopped making sense. If the ITRS back in the day had known we'd stop using
by Symmetry 4y ago
It's less that they're marketing deceptively than that the measure they were using stopped making sense. If the ITRS back in the day had known we'd stop using planar transistors they could have named their nodes for the transistor density they achieved but they didn't and so we're stuck with a naming convention that no longer refers to a real physical quantity but we are still getting the density improvements per node that we traditionally have.
- zaptrem 4y agoWhy don't we just switch to that now?
- Symmetry 4y agoDecades of tradition. And it's not clear exactly what they would switch to, in general transistors double every node but different processes tend to have different design rules so different processes might give you different densities on different designs making the exact reference design a fraught question.