[SkyMarshal]

> If Intel technically leapfrog TSMC and their 18nm is better than TSMC 20nm this year but;

Think you mean 1.8nm, aka 18A. We're way past 18nm and 20nm.

[swores]

How long ago did nm numbers stop being descriptions of size of chip and start being purely marketing names? About a decade?

[danparsonson]

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/296154-how-are-process...

"For a long time, gate length (the length of the transistor gate) and half-pitch (half the distance between two identical features on a chip) matched the process node name, but the last time this was true was 1997"

[swores]

Oh wow, I didn't realise it has been that long! Thanks for sharing

[danparsonson]

Same here, I would have put it much more recently than that; I wonder how long before we'll be into negative numbers...

[bee_rider]

While it is true that the nm numbers are bullshit, using the same made-up number helps keep the conversation on track, haha.

[ksec]

Yeah. That is what happen when I post it just before I felt asleep. Too late now can't edit it.