22nm comparison

[Lepton87]

I'd like to know how two 22nm processes(IBM's SOI and INTEL's TriGate) on the market compare, as far as I know those are the only two high performance 22nm nodes on the market.

Namely 22nm IBM SOI node it builds its Power 8 CPUs VS 22nm Tri-Gate Intel node

How do those node compare in terms of performance, density and power?

I think performance goes to IBM, why? Because the performance of 22nm process actually get worse compared to 32nm at the expense of power.
Density? I don't know
Power? Intel, due to its usage of Tri gate transistors.

What do you think? And how does TSMC's 20nm compare? Performance-wise it should lose to both and by a large margin. Is the drive current and other data available for those nodes?

 

[III-V]

Intel should be well ahead of IBM when it comes to performance and power. Intel has always lead... by a significant margin. Not quite so much against IBM's SOI, but the advantage is still there.

Density I'm not sure of. Usually IBM's a bit denser.

This is of course just speaking from historic trends. I don't know IBM's actual numbers for 22nm.

Source: http://www.realworldtech.com/includes/images/articles/iedm10-10.png?71da3d

 

[Lepton87]

My reasoning for why IBM should have faster transistors at 22nm is that they would have to be somewhere around 5 years behind Intel earlier if they still didn't catch up. They would still have to be behind Intel's 32nm process which was released in January of 2010. Power 8 was made available 4 and 1/2 years later. Because with 22nm Intel took a step backwards in terms of performance that would mean Intel had an over 5 year lead in terms of transistor performance.

 

[III-V]

My reasoning for why IBM should have faster transistors at 22nm is that they would have to be somewhere around 5 years behind Intel earlier if they still didn't catch up. They would still have to be behind Intel's 32nm process which was released in January of 2010. Power 8 was made available 4 and 1/2 years later. Because with 22nm Intel took a step backwards in terms of performance that would mean Intel had an over 5 year lead in terms of transistor performance.

They're something like a year behind Intel for transistor performance. The other foundries are about 3½, IIRC.