Intel divides its production of processors into three different branches

New strategy by Intel to reduce the problems they currently have with the excess of products based on 14nm.

Intel's issues with 10nm lithography is becoming a major problem and forces the company to use only 14nm lithography that is currently saturated with Skylake-X, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, and Coffee Lake Refresh not to mention Xeon processors. AMD wants to fish in a troubled river with the AMD Ryzen something that Intel does not want to allow and the strategy is based on prioritizing Core processors for the gaming market and Xeon for servers, leaving aside the Pentium and Celeron.

Intel sacrifices the Pentium and Celeron in favor of the Core and Xeon processors.

It is not the only modification that the company wants to make, since they also have an interest in dividing production into three. The first branch will focus on the development of technologies with Mike Mayberry as head and who will be responsible for the new lithographs are ready as soon as possible.

As a second branch we have the manufacturing processes and operations commanded by Ann Kelleher, who will control the day to day of the foundries and the production process. The third branch will refer to the supply chain that will be managed by Randhir Thakur. The person in charge of control and support in whatever is needed will be Venkata Renduchintala, current CEO of the company and who arrived in 2015 from Qualcomm.

The main objective is that the 10nm lithography is as soon as possible, to be able to be in 2019 and launch the first processors with this lithography and solve many of the current problems. The problem lies in the number of useful chips per wafer that has not yet reached an adequate volume and that makes it unfeasible for series production due to costs.

Source: TPU