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14nm and 7nm are NOT what you think it is - Visiting Tescan Part 3/3

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What it is

Der8auer visits Tescan and uses an electron microscope to compare real transistor sizes on Intel 14nm and AMD 7nm chips. It shows that process node names do not match physical measurements.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as visual evidence that nm node names are marketing labels and for its neat electron microscope comparison.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “Here's a neat video where they use an electron microscope to actually compare the transistor sizes for Intel 14nm and AMD 7nm”

    Electron microscope comparison of Intel 14nm and AMD 7nm transistor sizes.

    datagram, 2021-04 · Recommendation · in “Intel 3rd gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake): generationally big, competitively small”

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Topics: 14nm, 7nm, electron microscope, transistors, intel vs amd

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