Intel Corp (INTC)

[fastpathguru]

The salient point is that Intel is not ahead any more. They are even at best, and very likely falling behind.

Litho is a 2d process, repeated in layers. Nobody has ever said/expected that litho resolution improvements occur equally along all 3 axes in 3d space.

And if you're using "transistors/area" as your metric, you may want to recalibrate your sense of Intel's superiority, as Intel chips' actual transistor density, measured by transistors/area, are in fact often less dense than competing devices due to differences in architectures and other design trade-offs.

fpg