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Intel Faces Potential Class-Action Lawsuit over Chip Bug Controversy

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Re: Intel Faces Potential Class-Action Lawsuit over Chip Bug Controversy

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Fin-Fet was intel, and that was just 12 years ago. Sure they dropped the ball after that but it was a rather quick fall from grace.

But it wasn't though...[1] Intel didn't invent/discover FinFET, nor were they the first to commercialize it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_field-effect_transistor

I think you might be looking for facts that fit your ideas.

>> Commercially produced chips at 22 nm and below have generally utilised FinFET gate designs (but planar processes do exist down to 18 nm, with 12 nm in development). Intel's tri-gate variant were announced at 22 nm in 2011 for its Ivy Bridge microarchitecture.[30] These devices shipped from 2012 onwards. From 2014 onwards, at 14 nm (or 16 nm) major foundries (TSMC, Samsung, GlobalFoundries) utilised FinFET designs.

Re: Intel Faces Potential Class-Action Lawsuit over Chip Bug Controversy

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it wasn't though...[1] Intel didn't invent/discover FinFET, nor were they the first to commercialize it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_field-effect_transistor

I think you might be looking for facts that fit your ideas. >> Commercially produced chips at 22 nm and below have generally utilised FinFET gate designs (but planar processes do exist down to 18 nm, with 12 nm in development). Intel's tri-gate variant were announced at 22 nm in 2011 for its Ivy Bridge microarchitecture.[30] These devices shipped from 2012 onwards. From 2014 onwards, at 14 nm (or 16 nm) major foundri…

Do I need to copy/paste the entire wikipedia section? Intel didn't invent/discover FinFET nor where they first to use it commercially.

Even if we examine Intel's Tri-gate Transistor contribution to existing FinFET technology, we can see even there it was not an Intel invention/discovery.

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