EricHiggin said:
Pretty sure 10nm Enhanced SuperFin came after 10nm SuperFin, which is now called Intel 7 since it's closer to what the industry would consider it. So then old 7nm (for Intel) is now called Intel 4 since it should be on par with the rest of the industry at 4nm. The 'industry' basically being TSMC. |
Node names were supposed to mean the transistor gate length or half of their pitch, which were roughly equivalent, but haven't since the nineties.
Even then, Intel more or less opted to follow the old ITRS's guidelines while the other manufacturers made up their own commercial names, which have sort of misled investors, the specialized media, users, etc.
This is what is allowing absurd discrepancies such as Samsung's 5 nm having most of its features larger than Intel's 10 nm.
