Vayra86 Don't be crazy, if you're not moving to a smaller node when the competitor has it at full steam, its the end of the road eventually, or you will need to readjust and cater to different markets. Nobody is going to accept second rate hardware and we know what the current nodes are capable of. No progress = death. Even if simply because in 2022, my Coffee Lake CPU will still be working just fine. There is zero reason to sidegrade to something with the same performance.

I'm not crazy (not clinicically anyway), and neither are GloFo. The world of silicone is more than CPUs, SoCs and GPUs. And does anyone had solid pland beyond 7 or 5nm? I mean realistically? The end of silicone is definitely upon is, and what will happen beyond thst? We keep saying they'll vome up with something, but what? Intel, damn Intel for petes sake, can't figure out <14nm, and they used to be the masters of this race. What beyond thst? GloFo might have given up on reduction, but I doubt they've given up on refinement of the current process. The great wall is approaching, and GloFo is just doubling down on what they know they can do. They say the majority of their customers have no plans whatsoever for anything below their current node. Sure improved tech makes way for new applications of that tech, but they probably couldn't make the figures to make sense.I mean that was just my initial reaction to it, but the more I think about it the more sense it makes to me.