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https://www.extremetech.com/computing/296154-how-are-process...

"For a long time, gate length (the length of the transistor gate) and half-pitch (half the distance between two identical features on a chip) matched the process node name, but the last time this was true was 1997"



Oh wow, I didn't realise it has been that long! Thanks for sharing


Same here, I would have put it much more recently than that; I wonder how long before we'll be into negative numbers...




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