This is a 10nm processor, right ? So a 10mn processor can be as fast as a 5mn processor but at more than double the voltage ? Not so bad. What would be the perf of this processor with TSMC 5nm tech ?
Those numbers are not comparable. In fact, these days they are meaningless.
Intel used to measure a part of a transistor. Worked well until the geometry of the transistor changed and there wasn’t something comparable. So they chose something different that kinda looked right.
TSMC chose something else.
These numbers are meaningless.
Mostly all the fabs really are talking about transistors per mm. But if you look closely, logic density is changing at a different rate than other things like those that make up sram (particularly TSMC).
Those caches are increasing size because 1) new designs want more MB and 2) sram density is not improving as well as logic density so caches are taking up more space in a relative basis if all you do is a die shrink.
