[LeegleechN]

Their competition are the ones who played marketing games already, skipping forward a node relative to pre FinFET scaling. Intel's rename aligns it with the rest of the industry in terms of transistor density on each process number.

None of these numbers have aligned with physical features on the chip for a while, so they are just an arbitrary convention now. It's better for all of the manufacturers to use the same convention.

[sremani]

Could be, was informed (on HN) that Intel 10nm was more like Samsung 7nm and this is sort of adjusting to that.

[paul_f]

Correct! Numbers like 10nm and 7nm are no longer fully define the process.