Here's to hoping 14nm will be the tank that mature 32nm was.
My logic says no tho - because it's a new process what's to say it will OC well?
Historicly all good OC nodes were mature ones - weren't they?
Penryn overclocked well, and that was introduced on the brand new 45nm process.
I don't know about prior to that. 45nm was great because of HKMG, which is something the industry desperately needed to combat leakage current. It also had tremendously improved PMOS Idsats, likely due to continued improvement of their strained silicon. 32nm, despite introducing "nothing new" technologically, brought similar improvements over 45nm that 45nm had brought over 65nm.
22nm has been a real stinker because FinFETs perform worse than planar FETs at high voltage.
Essentially, I'd argue that it's got little to do with maturity, and has lot more to do with the underlying microarchitecture and the innovations introduced with that node. I think the importance of process maturity is overstated in the tech journalism industry. When we see products launch from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and others, the nodes are fairly mature at those times.