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Re:Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over... by ashtonkem on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:29AM (#23115859)
Process isn’t everything, but they’re not just marketing. The process has a huge impact on the heat & power characteristics of the core, and also controls how much stuff you can stuff into a die.
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Re:Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over... by sascovid19tw on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:34AM (#23115919)
The point he's making is that 10nm, 7nm, etc don't actually denote anything that lets you do an apples-to-apples comparison anymore. At this point, they're not measures the way they were in legacy process nodes.
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Re:Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over... by gowld on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:32PM (#23116584)
They haven't been apple to apples in over 20 years. But being stuck on one feature size for more than 2-3 years is still a major roadblock to performance improvement.
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