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Yes, pretty sure Intel 7 is non-EUV. Is Intel 4 a EUV node ?

• adrian_b 3y ago
  Intel 4, which will be a very short-lived node that is likely to be used for a single Intel product, i.e. Meteor Lake, is advertised as being the first Intel process that uses EUV. The next Intel products, i.e. the server CPUs Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids, which will be launched in 2024, will use the Intel 3 CMOS process. Like also when they have launched their 14 nm and 10 nm (a.k.a. Intel 7) processes, Intel has difficulties in obtaining on the new process clock frequencies as high as in their previous mature process, which is why they had to use Raptor Lake Refresh for desktops and restrict Meteor Lake to laptops (like when 10-nm Ice Lake was paired with 14-nm Comet Lake). With the previous 14 nm and 10 nm processes, eventually Intel has succeeded to reach very high clock frequencies after many years of tuning and tweaking the processes. With Intel 4 they will not have the opportunity to do the same, because they will pass immediately to another process node, since that is their only chance to recover a part of the advance that TSMC has over them.