Lots of people still use older processor nodes. For example Groq[1] uses 14nm chips for their inference chips. Older fab tech is cheaper to use (less demand a

Lots of people still use older processor nodes. For example Groq[1] uses 14nm chips for their inference chips. Older fab tech is cheaper to use (less demand and higher yields). Most chips made are on older processes, it's only the bleeding-edge CPU/GPU chips that use bleeding-edge fab tech. [1] https://groq.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GroqChip%E2%84%A2-Processor-Product-Brief-v1.7.pdf https://groq.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GroqChip%E2%84%A...