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Re:The chips are down for Moore’s law by dbcooper on Thursday February 11, 2016 @04:52AM (#11079229)
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...

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Re:The chips are down for Moore’s law by creshal on Thursday February 11, 2016 @06:04AM (#11079447)
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.
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