14nm and 7nm are NOT what you think it is - Visiting Tescan Part 3/3

Like others have said, the numbers aren't comparable between manufacturers. Here's a neat video where they use an electron microscope to actually compare the transistor sizes for Intel 14nm and AMD 7nm: ▶ this video

This reminds me of seeing a part of the chip from a scanning electron microscope: ▶ this video But I wonder how successful these methods are are extracting keys from a TPM or other hardware keys.

der8auer "14nm and 7nm are NOT what you think it is - Visiting Tescan" ▶ this video for reference "TESCAN is a leading global producer and supplier of scanning electron microscopes, focused ion beam scanning electron microscopes and micro-CT solutions."

According to this video using an electron scanning microscope on amd and Intel chips, the “7nm” or “10nm” number does not measure anything, and is effectively a process version number for marketing. From memory there is no single number for measuring transistors or efficiency, transistor density is useful, but it doesn’t tell you the performance or power usage. ▶ this video