At the IEEE VLSI Symposium last month, Intel joined other developers in saying they are ready to "a reduction of the semiconductor production node«. This reduction in node size, they claim, will have a significant impact on the market.
The 10nm process nodes they could not compete with current 14nm process technology, which had worked well for the company for quite some time. The DigiTimes portal also reports that the Intel 3 will begin to increase its manufacturing in the second half of next year and with it will deliver an 18% performance increase compared to Intel 4.
Intel 4 will be the blue brand's new 7nm node technology
The new Intel 4 node will be the center of the CPU series meteor lake, the company's upcoming 14th-generation Core processors; alongside Granite Rapids enterprise-grade CPUs. Intel Meteor Lake is planned to be the first processor designed in chip form for volumetric production, using a flexible tiled architecture; and Foveros' 3D packaging technology.
AMD and others plan to offer the APU technology and use integrated graphics with TSMC's N5 and N4 process technologies. Although the Raptor Lake series of CPUs has not yet been released, it seems that Intel plans to be fully prepared for the next release and the next.
Although everything indicates that Raptor Lake would be more of a reinforcement generation to Alder Lake, since reports have stated that it will not come close to possessing the same potential as the Meteor Lake series. Todop indicates that the generation after Raptor Lake will be one of the most important, since with it they will debut their 7nm process, which should impress the rest of the competitors that use Samsung and TSMC processes.
The Intel 4 process is a way to demonstrate their dominance in the sector and that they do not need to outsource the manufacture of their CPUs to offer innovative and top-of-the-range products. Since they go into mass production in the second half of this year and the manufacturing of CPUs becomes slow until they start to have final results, by the beginning of the following year The first engineering samples should already be coming out, and with it the leaks and unofficial benchmarks.
Source: Wccftech
