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Comment by lizknope

1 day ago

https://www.eejournal.com/article/no-more-nanometers/

Sometime around 2011 when Intel named their process node 22nm which the gate length was 26nm

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Legend2440  1 day ago

Your article says it started earlier:

>So essentially, since 1997, the node name has not been a representation of any actual dimension on the chip, and it has erred in both directions by almost a factor of 2.

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