This is how Intel works.
Fab RA3 in Oregon is probably close to delivering first real silicon on 7nm.
Now they need to get the production fab on 7nm ready.
Intel’s 14nm was very advanced and it took awhile to get the bugs out of the system.
7 nM... I thought that was a few years off.
But an added comment—maybe you know.
I was reading the other day that the processes are named by minimum feature size, which might be something like the width of the FinFet gate. However, what really matters is overall transistor density.
The article I was reading said that Intel’s 14 nm was significantly ahead of Samsung or TSM’s offering of roughly the same minimum feature size. Do you know of any comparison in terms of transistors/unit area, or some other more general density measure?