Recent content by jddigitalchaos

Hate to break it to you, but Intel's new naming convention really better matches what TSMC and Samsung have done. Intel was just dead set for too long on each process node giving a density improvement of <70% from the previous generation, but TSMC didn't get anywhere near that from 10->7nm...

Yes, it does though. Intel has specifically called out 20A as "entering the Angstrom era". If you're referring to it not representing any transistor dimension, then yes you are correct. Process names haven't actually been associated with any transistor dimension for decades (even for TSMC or...