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		2muchcoffeeman on Aug 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple M2 Pro to use new 3nm process I never thought you’d get gains by simply switching vendor. 4nm to 4nm and they still saw gains.

terafo on Aug 25, 2022 [–]

The thing is that 4nm doesn't actually mean anything. Intel's 10nm node is mostly on par with TSMC N7 and it caused quite a bit of confusion, so Intel renamed a bit improved version(something they would call 10nm++) to Intel 7. It's all just marketing and have been for 15 years or so.

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