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Re:Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a ... by ksec on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:32PM (#29110865)
Yes except I got asked again and again what is "Intel 7". So I am going to stick with a simple naming scheme that right now happens to be about the same across all three foundry working on leading node, Samsung, Intel and TSMC. And everyone can relate or understand.
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Re:Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a ... by SahAssar on Thursday November 04, 2021 @06:54PM (#29113439)
If that is the case shouldn't you call it "Intel 10nm" since that is what it was called when Intel was still using the same units as everyone else (even if those units are becoming meaningless)?

Not even Intel itself says that "Intel 7" means "7nm", right?

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Re:Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a ... by SirMittens on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:27PM (#29113697)
Even if Intel was using "nm" like everyone else, Intel's naming was closer to reality then the rest of the industry. TSMC and Samsung's "nm" is more of a marketing term.

Intel's 10nm is relatively close to TSMC's 7nm in term of density. That's why Intel renamed it to "Intel 7".

Technically, even TSMC calls it N7, and not 7nm.

But as you said, those units are more or less meaningless. Its just marketing.

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Re:Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a ... by phire on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:37PM (#29113765)
Intel have a different process that used to documetned and marketed as 7nm. That process since has been renamed to Intel 4.

Regardless of discussions about actual density and the meaningless, it's important to make the discussions between Intel 7 and 7nm (now Intel 4) to prevent confusion. Otherwise people might mistakenly think Alder Lake is on the process previously known as Intel 7nm.

Fortunately, once we get to Intel 4, it becomes unambitious again.

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