Should You Believe CPU Marketing? - Process Nodes Explained

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[tek]

so basically he is saying that it does not matter because AMD is doing it, but let Intel do it and he will do a party celebrating how Intel is amazing. This guy is biased and he is paid by intel.

[BrettR]

Linus is the kid that actually has his presentation prepared.

[FREQQLES]

Mentioning carbon nano tubes without Riley around just doesn't feel right.

[RustyUK]

I like that the ad before this video was an Intel ad saying what's inside matters.

[flat_stickproductions]

Intel says node size isnt everything.... I imagine it would be very important if they had 7nm and AMD had only 10nm.

[celeron]

I've worked on one of the 7nm nodes while it was in development. Fins were 8nm wide, fin pitch was 26nm, diffusion/poly layers were over 20x50nm and if transistors were not in an array they had to skip at least 3-4 fins. I think the only thing at 7nm was some spacing between layers...

[samtherat]

When are we going to start measuring performance by how much RGB we have in the system?

[jonhughes]

"we asked Intel if lower nm matters"
Then we asked Chrystler if we should buy a Tesla

[mido]

This video feels like intel's last solution because they can't get into 7nm

[doomtomb]

correction at 3:32 increasing surface area of the gate around the channel in FinFET was not to allow more electrons to pass through the channel but to combat short-channel effects and carrier leakage i.e. clamping down on the channel to turn it off when you want the device off. Without FinFET, at these sizes, the field effect would not be able to be controlled by the gate and would be Always-On instead of switching (on/off).

[ZeInfidel]

The whole nm measurement is a hot mess between Samsung, TSMC, and Intel. One will claim 5nm, another 7nm +, and another 10nm etc.
As so correctly stated, you just have to go with performance and architecture as ultimately that is what it is all about.

[andrescarrasco]

If Intel had 7nm and AMD 10nm they'd be screaming out loud how important it's the fabrication node, as they don't they compare a 90watts gpu to a 65watts GPU and say it's a cpu comparation

[evl]

Intel: Don't talk about benchmarks, transistor size doesn't matter, Apple still loves me... I need help!

[tendiepepe]

"Does transistor size matter?"
*talks to intel about it*

[mariusm]

Hmmm the words used exactly match Intel's marketing slides with "real world performance", "applications you actually use"

[aceb]

I can't stress enough on how important to me this video was on explaining to me the number of nanometers I am always hearing or seeing on looking up a cpu. Thank you so much!

[sawyermervis]

Linus: To learn more about process node size we reached out to intel...
Intel: MORE PLUSES IS MORE PERFORMANCE GUYS.

[busybeingterrible]

Of course Intel would say it doesn't matter. They can't keep up with AMD and TSMC. 😂🤣😂🤣

[maperez]

Ok but missed opportunity to have Riley come and say carbon nanotubes at the end

[BobMotster]

PC enthusiasts: Less nanometres is good!
Intel, struggling to go below the 10nm threshold: Nah, it's just marketing BS, size does not matter THAT much!