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> (10nm++/Intel7, the name changed over the period for marketing reasons) People like to pick on this change a lot but these names have been marketing for deca
by formerly_proven 3y ago
> (10nm++/Intel7, the name changed over the period for marketing reasons)
People like to pick on this change a lot but these names have been marketing for decades, and other fabs (including TSMC and GloFo) named nodes more advanced than they were purely to look better (iirc - GF 14nm was much closer to Intel's 22nm than to 14nm, Samsung 8nm performed way worse than TSMC N7 etc.) - meanwhile "Intel 10ESF" aka "Intel 7" is actually very similar in most metrics to TSMC N7, though is more amenable to higher clocks.
If anyone wants to loose braincells over this, Wikipedia editors are (still) having an epicly long debate over this since the name was changed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:7_nm_process#Intel_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:7_nm_process#Intel_7