Duh, duh duh!
The minimum gate pitch of Intel’s 10 nm process shrinks from 70 nm to 54 nm; the MMP (minimum metal pitch) shrinks from 52 nm to 36 nm.
And, yes, fins are always bigger than this stupid meaningless number
that is so important to Ragson, Demerjian and Aessa: "5nm 7nm 10nm.." Say it again...you sound so pro...
The number "x nm" is just an advertising ploy created by losers like GloFo, Taiwan semi (they ship 7nm process only in memory to date)
THE COMPETITION DOESN'T REPORT TRANSISTOR DENSITIES!!!!
This is the only meaningful metric.
Competitions 7nm transistors are less dense than Intel's 10nm! Intels "hyper scaling" acheives transistor density of 10^8 per mm^2 which is (14nm/10nm)^3 = 2.7x higher than than previous and other industry 10 - 7 nm technologies. This is "hyperscaling" = full volume shrink. I repeat this is higher than 7nm of the others. Intel has a is full volume
shrink; Intel remains ahead in processor lead. I have posted this a half dozen times on this site but it always gets removed by the moderators.
Intel has already released the 10-nanometer processor (for mobile applications+: the Core i3-8121U, Cannon Lake.
Intel is having trouble shrinking its graphics architecture down to 10nm and is one of the reasons why volume production of Cannon Lake keeps getting pushed out. (Last time I checked in there are no graphics structures in anyone elses "7nm" memory checks) I am quite sure that in 6 mos this will be resolved.
Intel is well into R&D on hyperscaled 7nm and even 5nm (full volume shrinks) But what the idiot squads of analysts don't understand is that somewhere between 10 nm and 3nm the shrinking stops. An atom
is only 0.1 nm in diameter. You certainly won't get to transistors smaller than an atom. 1000 atoms in a transistor is probably the limit for CMOS based tech..that's 1nm, and it won't be cost effective. I don;t care if you use EUV, Xrays, GammaRays or quarks to manufacture it...Moores Law ends and it is ending now.
You can take that to the bank, but you will have competition claiming "0.1 nm" since there are atoms on their processors that are that small.
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