The majority of Intel's own silicon will be fabbed on 10nm variants: 10nm+ will likely be retired (IceLake-SP is their final product on that node), and production will eventually shift to 10SF or 10ESF/Intel 7. Without more EUV gear, volume on 7nm/Intel 4 and 5nm/Intel 3 will be seriously low, no matter how many more facilities they build.
What mostly strikes me here is the incompetence of the journalism. The tone of the article isn't in tune with reality. I just love it how the technical press is so willingly going along with the business ghouls that wanted to split Intel to make a quick buck.
Plus, only two? Samsung is still very much in the game... Sure, they got other priorities than Intel and TSMC, but they're keeping up. And for specific device types other manufacturers are more than keeping up.
The reality is that technology wise Intel is still very much keeping up with TSMC and Samsung, in fact, Intel achieves higher transistor densities on their latest iteration of what they used to call their 10nm than TSMC does on their "7 nm". It's kind of funny to see people fall for the marketing garbage TSMC is pulling. Though I suppose if we go squarely down that road everyone else should get out of the business and we should all bow to SK Hynix. Got to love the feature sizes you can get when manufacturin
. . . maybe. Their 10nm struggles ought to show you that throwing money at a problem isn't necessarily a solution. However, they could have significantly improved their prospects by ordering more equipment from ASML.
I wouldn't say that they're lucky.
That is one of the 'benefits' of investing money into advertising; people will prefer the product they've heard about already over some unknown product. If they don't know that your product is inferior in reality, they can't even begin to care. It's a real shame that situation. But that's how it is.
Before this pandemic situation I've built a lot of PCs for customers, and I did it primarily with AMD Ryzen CPUs. The thing is that most people never even heard of AMD. They k
They can't get enough EUV machines to produce more than 20 wkpm on Intel 7nm/Intel 4 by 2023:
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The majority of Intel's own silicon will be fabbed on 10nm variants: 10nm+ will likely be retired (IceLake-SP is their final product on that node), and production will eventually shift to 10SF or 10ESF/Intel 7. Without more EUV gear, volume on 7nm/Intel 4 and 5nm/Intel 3 will be seriously low, no matter how many more facilities they build.
So maybe Intel can expand their 10ESF/Intel
Plus, only two? Samsung is still very much in the game... Sure, they got other priorities than Intel and TSMC, but they're keeping up. And for specific device types other manufacturers are more than keeping up.
. . . maybe. Their 10nm struggles ought to show you that throwing money at a problem isn't necessarily a solution. However, they could have significantly improved their prospects by ordering more equipment from ASML.
That is one of the 'benefits' of investing money into advertising; people will prefer the product they've heard about already over some unknown product. If they don't know that your product is inferior in reality, they can't even begin to care. It's a real shame that situation. But that's how it is.
Before this pandemic situation I've built a lot of PCs for customers, and I did it primarily with AMD Ryzen CPUs. The thing is that most people never even heard of AMD. They k