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by bbtn 3788 days ago
People think it is transistor size that is 14 nm, which is not. It is metal pitch on high density memory chips that have repetitive patterns all over the chip.

That sentence is not wrong. It looks well stated.

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14nm is supposed to refer to the gate length (which may be larger than the node name).

The gate pitch of Intel's 14nm CPU process node is more like 70nm. [1]

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8367/intels-14nm-technology-in...

I think the last process where process name = gate length was 90nm. Ever since the naming scheme was more a historic artefact than anything else.