5nm is only a marketing term and has no relation to any actual phyiscal feature
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Re: 5nm is only a marketing term and has no relation to any actual phyiscal feature
#2Hasn't the tech community known this for years?
Re: 5nm is only a marketing term and has no relation to any actual phyiscal feature
#3I've been curious, if this is true, why hasn't intel moved the goalpost for 7nm and declared victory, rather than the constant black eye of not having achieved that "marketing" number for years?
Re: 5nm is only a marketing term and has no relation to any actual phyiscal feature
#4Disappointed that Intel had to change their naming because otherwise they'd lose out in marketing honestly. Corporations can't be truthful because a competitor won't be.
Re: 5nm is only a marketing term and has no relation to any actual phyiscal feature
#5I've been curious, if this is true, why hasn't intel moved the goalpost for 7nm and declared victory, rather than the constant black eye of not having achieved that "marketing" number for years?
They have agreed a formula along the lines that faster, new generation chips get named as if the previous convention had continued.
Re: 5nm is only a marketing term and has no relation to any actual phyiscal feature
#6Hasn't the tech community known this for years?
Does anyone have to care about this implementation detail?
Re: 5nm is only a marketing term and has no relation to any actual phyiscal feature
#7It has a relation to transistor density
Re: 5nm is only a marketing term and has no relation to any actual phyiscal feature
#8It really feels like this should be illegal.
Re: 5nm is only a marketing term and has no relation to any actual phyiscal feature
#9Hasn't the tech community known this for years?
Does anyone have to care about this implementation detail?
For one thing, it makes it harder for me to understand when it will be necessary for new processors to use exotic materials. Since I've learned about the naming, and that processors have not actually reached the 5nm physical limit for silicon, it feels wrong to perpetuate it.
Re: 5nm is only a marketing term and has no relation to any actual phyiscal feature
#10Disappointed that Intel had to change their naming because otherwise they'd lose out in marketing honestly. Corporations can't be truthful because a competitor won't be.
Back in the day everyone was concerned with the number of bit their gaming console had. The Nintendo 64 was the last to use bits as a primary marketing feature.