Intel Says It Is Delivering More Than 90% of Products on Time (bloomberg.com) 23
Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, said it's maintaining above 90% on-time delivery of its products from factories worldwide. From a report: Chief Executive Officer Bob Swan told customers in a letter posted on the company's website that he is "inspired by the deep commitment of our teams to sustain our manufacturing, assembly, test and supply chain operations in Oregon, New Mexico, California and Arizona, as well as Israel, Ireland, China, Malaysia, Vietnam and other Intel and partner locations around the world." "They are working hard to make sure you can continue to be successful," he added. Intel's products are essential components of personal computers and the server machines that run corporate networks and the internet. Continued output from its factories is a vital part of the global supply chain as the technology industry scrambles to deal with the effects of the pandemic. Semiconductor plants are some of the most automated facilities in the world and require very little human involvement directly in the manufacturing process. The electronic components take as long as three months to get through the multistep process. That means chips coming out of Intel's plants now would have been started before the Covid-19 virus kicked in and caused a lockdown of big chunks of the world's population.
90% right now... (Score:2)
Are they saying that in about a month or two, their shipments will drop below 90%?
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Calm down, Thanos.
Lawyer talk. (Score:3)
Look, this is Intel telling us something so the first thing you should do is not believe them. As they say, the proof is in the pudding. Honestly though, does anyone want to take any more risks using Intel chips which are slower and have a bad history of security flaws?
If you're still buying Intel shit then you are just as dumb as they hoped you'd be.
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...Semiconductor plants are some of the most automated facilities in the world and require very little human involvement directly in the manufacturing process...
What this is telling me is that, after this Coronavirus mess is over, more industries will attempt to fully automate.
Uuum, fabs are already practically fully automated (Score:2)
They aren't called "lights-out fabs" for nothing.
The problem never was jobs anyway, but money. Like for food and rent.
The problem is profit. That *we* actually did the work, but they took a large share without working an equally large amount, or at all. Of a profit that came out of our pockets too. And they then bought automation with what should still be our money. To be able to pay us even. And leech off even more of the profits. of which I have no idea who they are thinking will still be able to afford t
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If you're still buying Intel shit then you are just as dumb as they hoped you'd be.
AMD does NOT fab their own chips anymore. Primary supplier is TSMC, secondary is Samsung Semiconductors.
If Intel disapeared tomorrow:
Do you think that TSMC will devote all their 7nm capacity to AMD, making other 7nm customers like Apple, Huawei, Mediatek, Qualcomm angry? I do not think so....
Do you think Samsung will devote all their 7nm capacity for AMD, in detriment of their own Exynox chips? And those from other 7nm customers? I do nt think so.
If you want x86 in more than two sockets (say four sockets, 8
Uuum, what? (Score:2)
Last time I heard, for at least Epyc, AMD was doing AVX-512 and transactional memory, plus multi-socket AMD boards were a thing until single multi-chiplet CPUs had so many cores and lanes that they were essentially multi-socket equivalents and no board would be able to support all the lanes and space for mulitple of them anyway. If you want even more, you'd go multi-board/blade in practice anyway.
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Actually, it's GlobalFoundries, which was what AMD's fabs were spun off from.
The problem AMD has/had was supply and yield. The spun off GlobalFoundries bercause it was becoming an albatross for AMD, and this way it also lets AMD use other fabs as necessary to produce their chips.
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"it's GlobalFoundries"
Not at 10, 7, or 5nm finfet, because GlobalFoundries doesn't have 7nm any more and never had 10 or 5. Also, their 14nm finfet process, which they now call a 12nm finfet process, was purchased from Samsung. AFAIK, 12nm bulk SOI is original.
Of course with diminished PC demand... (Score:2)
... thanks to COVID-19, masking the Intel Parts shortages...
This global resession that made a huge dip in Desktop/Laptop/Workstation/Server sales is great news for intel, as it masks their 10nm induced supply problems...
Oh dear...
https://www.tomshardware.com/n... [tomshardware.com]
https://www.networkworld.com/a... [networkworld.com]
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There's a lot of people starting work from home and realizing that what they had at home is inadequate. Already, you literally can't buy a webcam at a decent price online or locally in store in the US.
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Servers sales aren't dropping, at all. In fact there's a huge supply chain shortage at the moment as a knockon from the China closings. We're trying to get servers because we've gone from a few hundred remote users to over a thousand and are preparing for over three thousand. Lead times are currently looking like 6-8 weeks with some mumbling that it might be more like 3 months.
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Ya, but ... (Score:3)
Intel Says It Is Delivering More Than 90% of Products on Time
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Virtual +1 funny.
Yeah, but not in the wanted quantities. (Score:2)
Or did anyone see any 10nm CPUs from them yet? ;)
No Supply (Score:2)
Try buying laptops or business pc/servers right now. It has been tough (here in Canada) as the big wholesalers (Ingram Micro and Synnex) just keep a little stock. Everything else has to come from California, or even Taiwan.
It's been slow for while now (Intel NUC's) and now everything shows out of stock/on order. I'm scrambling to get laptops (that aren't $1500+) for all thew new remote workers.
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I can sell you my old ThinkPad 760 for 500$CAD...
Yeah, but (Score:3)
Do they work, or are they still full of cache leaks?
Delivering shit on time is not an achievement unless you're on a low fibre diet.
How about performing on time? (Score:2)
So, when will 10nm be faster than 14nm? I guess that is still behind by several years.