7nm could arrive in two years

[cobito]

At least that's what the newly updated roadmap of GlobalFoundries, one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers, indicates.

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[kynes]

There is some "scam" in those 7nm, since they don't use ultra-high frequency ultraviolet, but they still use 193nm I think, and they use several exposures. It's going to be a mess until they develop the exposure with ultra-high frequency, but the emitters are giving them a lot of problems because they have very short useful lives.

The costs in 7nm are going to skyrocket a lot, get used to it.

Aaah, one thing, Intel's 10nm is roughly equivalent to global foundries' 7nm, for a few generations now each factory measures the channel length however it likes.