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Tostinolast Tuesday at 5:02 PM1 replyview on HN

I mean they were on 14 NM until just about 2022, those memes didn't come from nowhere. And it's not even that long ago.


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adrian_blast Wednesday at 2:41 PM

Their last 14 nm launch has been Rocket Lake, the desktop CPU of the year 2020/2021.

The next 3 years, 2021/2022, 2022/2023 and 2023/2024, have been dominated by "10 nm" rebranded as "Intel 7" products, which have used the Golden Cove/Raptor Cove and Gracemont CPU core micro-architectures.

Now their recent products are split between those made internally with the Intel 4/Intel 3 CMOS processes (which use rather obsolete CPU cores, which are very similar to the cores made with Intel 7, except that the new manufacturing process provides more cores per package and a lower power consumption per core) and those made at TSMC with up-to-date CPU cores, where the latter include all the higher end models for laptop and desktop CPUs (the cheapest models for the year 2024/2025 remain some rebranded older CPU models based on refreshes of Meteor Lake, Raptor Lake and Alder Lake N).