Smaller CPU Process Nodes in 2019

Since 2014, the semiconductor industry has been using the 14nm process node. Just this year in 2018, AMD and Nvidia have switched to 12nm (with the Zen + and Turing microarchitecture respectively), although it isn’t much of a difference. Next year, however, AMD will make the jump to a 7nm process – which AMD claims will double transistor density, double power efficiency, and increase performance by 35%. That’s a massive gain compared to the typical 10% year-over-year performance improvement that Intel had in the past few years. Intel is also going to switch to a more efficient 10nm process, which is roughly comparable to AMD’s 7nm process. This will continue to fuel the competition with the consumer benefitting the most due to the most innovation.