Samsung Foundry Announces 10nm SoC in Mass-Production

AT should really be pointing this out. Samsungs announcement by itself it not much more than marketing propaganda.

Note that this is (59nm)^2, not 59nm^2. The latter being smaller than the feature size of a 14nm process.

Tom's Hardware, of course, gets it wrong.

Here is another metric that measures logic density [1]. At the 10nm process, Intel has a 21% advantage over Samsung using these numbers.

[1] https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/6160-2016-leading-edg...

The question is moot for the mobile market, since Intel don't fab a competitor to Snapdragon 400/600/800 with the same power/performance categories.

It doesn't have to be anticompetitive conspiracy, milking current technologies for all they've got make sense in a lot of ways. Making your previous generation profitable by delaying your next generation a little means your business can last in the long term. Releasing things ASAP in every instance means in many circumstances competing with yourself.

This is a cost of capitalism but it comes with the benefits of a self-sustaining system and more predictable futures. If politicians were funding processors, you'd bet they wouldn't want to spend the resources to double processor parameters every 18 months.

AMD has lost so much market share, there's no way they would collaborate with Intel.

If AMD had tech that Intel didn't, they'd use it.

When Moore made his famous observation, there were many competitors in the chipmaking industry. Do you have a single sign from that era of anti-competitive behavior?

Calling it 10nm or 14nm or 22nm is just marketing. Every manufacturer can call their manufacturing process whatever they want. If you actually look at the physical metrics like the minimum gate length, contacted gate pitch and minimum metal pitch then you will see that on the same "nm" process intel's process is always better.