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Soleron on 26 December 2013
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Pemalite said:
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You are indeed wrong on the part that half-nodes no longer exist though.

Half nodes are those that are not defined by the ITRS or "International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors""

For instance, 65nm, 45nm, 32nm, 22nm, 16nm and 11nm are classed as full nodes as specified by the ITRS.
Half nodes are 55nm, 40nm, 28nm, 20nm, 14nm and 10nm.

No one gives a fuck about the ITRS. What matters is the tech of Intel, GF, Samsung and TSMC. That's it. And in TSMC and GF's case, "20nm" is not smaller than Intel 22nm. The "nm" doesn't refer to anything useful, it's arbitrary since about 10 years ago. Ask former fab engineer idontcare on Anandtech forums for more info.

In general CPU's from the likes of Intel are always on a full node, sometimes the chipset or other chips may be on a half-node like in the case of AMD's 780 and 880 chipsets .

Vastly outdated info. There are no more half nodes ever again. It's too expensive to develop them. So they just rebrand.

Traditionally SOC's from the likes of ARM, and in some cases... AMD APU's as well as GPU's are usually on what is called the "half node".
Intel historically used to keep it's chipsets on a node or two behind it's latest fabrication process in order to give the old fabs something to do as an idle fab is wasted money.

Right now the consoles are using 28nm or a "half node" eventually they will move to "20nm" in the next stepping, that probably likely won't happen untill 2015 however because of yield and power characteristics.

TSMC 28nm = rebranded cancelled 32nm tech. It's 32nm, trust me.

nVidia and AMD will likely sample it first and take the hit on their high-end GPU's untill the kinks are worked out.

That won't happen in 2014. They will have it on GPUs in 2015 then consoles might be 2016 if ever. (I expect it to never happen)

And everyone knows Intel is the masters at playing the game of fabs. :)
They won't be beaten on that front any time soon, it's literally the only thing that's allowing Atom to go up against ARM.