{"id":206501,"date":"2025-02-15T00:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T06:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/intels-18a-found-to-be-faster-but-tsmcs-n2-is-denser-in-process-node-showdown"},"modified":"2025-02-15T00:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T06:06:05","slug":"intels-18a-found-to-be-faster-but-tsmcs-n2-is-denser-in-process-node-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/intels-18a-found-to-be-faster-but-tsmcs-n2-is-denser-in-process-node-showdown","title":{"rendered":"Intel\u2019s 18A found to be faster but TSMC\u2019s N2 is denser in process node showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intels-18a-found-to-be-faster-but-tsmcs-n2-is-denser-in-process-node-showdown.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new report from TechInsights breaks things down, suggesting we could be in for a <a href=\"https:\/\/library.techinsights.com\/public\/hg-asset\/f32a0f17-5369-4c97-913c-b78d2ddd833b\">closely matched competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to transistor density, TSMC\u2019s N2 appears to take the lead. The publication\u2019s data estimates N2\u2019s high-density standard cell transistor density at an impressive 313 million transistors per square millimeter, outpacing Intel\u2019s 18A at 238 million and Samsung\u2019s SF3 at 231 million. Of course, density isn\u2019t everything; chip designers use a mix of high-, standard-, and low-power cells. However, TSMC\u2019s advantage in density could provide an edge for certain workloads.<\/p>\n<p>The comparison becomes less clear when it comes to performance projections. Intel\u2019s 18A may have an advantage over TSMC\u2019s N2 and Samsung\u2019s SF3, but these are still just estimates based on extrapolating from previous node improvements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from TechInsights breaks things down, suggesting we could be in for a closely matched competition. When it comes to transistor density, TSMC\u2019s N2 appears to take the lead. The publication\u2019s data estimates N2\u2019s high-density standard cell transistor density at an impressive 313 million transistors per square millimeter, outpacing Intel\u2019s 18A at 238 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}