Good article I would still prefer that they would put the 3nm in quotation marks.As great as the advancements of TSMC were over the last decade their naming scheme is anything but and it's also not in relation to their actual node size anymore.
Sorry, what? I feel that point has been slipping past me. Are you saying that 5nm doesn't mean 5nm, and that 3nm doesn't mean 3nm? As in, the name no longer relates directly to the sizing?
That has been the case for a while.
Welcome to marketing!
It's not just TSMC, all the silicon fabs, their "node size" is a methodic yet arbitrary decreasing number.
They do mention that after 32nm they name of the process node is meaningless.