You do not know what you are talking about, but that is the norm for you guys here. News for you, Intel can go down to 5nm and I know that for a fact because I worked with them on their 3DXP products. I know what Intel can do. The issue is volume production for sub 10 nm products and this is where Intel do not (yet) have the capacity.
You think that just because some of China's semicon companies can go down to 7nm and that mean you 'won'?
It can take up to two yrs before a new node is commercially accepted. Large companies can buy engineering samples and do their own testing. Smaller companies will play the waiting game and see what the larger companies publish. And that is with established semicon companies. But not with Chinese semicon companies. Everyone know that how Chinese semicon companies got their knowledge was mostly by crook and the 7nm node is no different. Then after a Chinese economist recommend seizing foreign semicon assets, now everyone is even more wary of Chinese semicon products. So while Chinese semicon companies sweat out reviews of their 7nm products, Samsung is talking about $100b investment in the US. Same for TSMC.
Do you know what is 'bazooka' testing? No, unlikely you will find what it means online. It is a slang used by test engineers on what we do at the die structure level. Not die level, but even lower at the individual cell structures themselves. Bazooka testing is exactly what the word imply: an explosive burst of electricity at the cell. Not a graduated stress but a burst intend to destroy. So what do you think products build at the sub 10 nodes will perform with the bazooka testing? And what kind of product lines do you think sub 10 nodes can be profitable if some products cannot withstand bazooka testing? Of course you do not know. But you will wank off to these news items anyway because that is all you guys can do.