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Comment by hereme888

4 days ago

Is Intel's 18A actually 1.8 nm, or is this one of their usual marketing terms?

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newam  4 days ago

Process names are all marketing, at every company, not just intel. The process name has no relationship to the physical features of the transistors.

j_walter  4 days ago

Everything for the past few generations of nodes have not been actual dimensions but more of an equivalency. TSMC nodes are no different.

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