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Semiwiki says Intel has the density lead at 14 nm and 10 nm

Any process experts care to comment?

"Having reviewed the three companies/groups we can now compare the GP x M1P metric over the range of nodes studied.

130nm 90nm 65nm 45/40nm 32/28nm 22/20nm 16/14nm 10nm
Intel 111,650 57,200 46,200 38,800 12,656 8,100 3,640 2,101
TSMC 105,400 57,600 28,800 20,736 11,590 5,829 5,760 3,220
GF/S 122,500 60,025 36,000 15,093 8,640 4,090 4,992 3,072


This table has been updated since the original post based on measured TSMC 28nm and 20nm pitches from Chipworks. In the table above I have marked in bold the densest process at each node. It is interesting to see that it has moved around from node to node. Based on what has been disclosed to date and reasonable projections it looks like Intel will have the densest process at 16/14nm and 10nm using the GP x M1P metric. Whether this translates into a denser process for actual designs is a different question but GP x M1P is in our opinion a good measure of pure process density."


https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/3884-who-will-lead-10nm.html