>How times have changed! I still vividly remember Intel being a full node ahead of everyone else with their release of 22nm node. For example, see this article from 2012:
Vividly remember, I was reading this and assuming it is going to be way back.... 22nm and 2012 really wasn't that long ago :D
Intel has had the processing node leads on CPU since the 90s. I vividly remember Pentium were always at least one year ahead of AMD. That was the Pentium, Pentium MMX .... Not quite sure if it was the case in 386 / 486 era.
I remember 180nm was already in AMD Athlon era, so it was likely in 2xx nm or 3xx nm.
AMD was actually briefly ahead twice before, once in early Athlon times and a few years later with the first AMD64 ("x86-64" or as Intel called it "EM64T") CPU with on-die memory controller.
Those were microarchitectural advantages. I don't think AMD was ahead on manufacturing process shrinks. A quick check shows that the P3 and Athlon went from 250nm to 180nm at the same time.
Vividly remember, I was reading this and assuming it is going to be way back.... 22nm and 2012 really wasn't that long ago :D
Intel has had the processing node leads on CPU since the 90s. I vividly remember Pentium were always at least one year ahead of AMD. That was the Pentium, Pentium MMX .... Not quite sure if it was the case in 386 / 486 era.
I remember 180nm was already in AMD Athlon era, so it was likely in 2xx nm or 3xx nm.