Comment by phire

This fact keeps getting more and more exaggerated as time goes on.

Yes, intel's 10nm absolutely smashes Samsung, GF and TSMC's 10nm processes. Yes Intel's 10nm should be very competitive/comparable with Samsung/GF/TSMC's 7nm processes. But all of the Intel 10nm metrics are slightly worse than the 7nm processes its now competing with.

To cherrypick one metric as an example -

  * TSMC 10nm sram bitcell size: 0.042 µm²  
  * Intel 10nm sram bitcell size: 0.031 µm²  
  * TSMC 7nm sram bitcell size: 0.027 µm²