Intel's 10nm will now arrive in 2019 and meanwhile, rehash the chant in 14nm, called Whiskey Lake

The accounts have been presented by Intel and during the presentation of the accounts, the company has reported that they are delaying for the umpteenth time the processors manufactured in 10nm and that a new rehash in 14nm, called Whiskey Lake, will arrive.

During the presentation of the Intel accounts, which we will talk more about in a specific post, very interesting information was given. Most importantly, far from the 16% increase in revenue, the company continues to have significant problems in the production of 10nm chips. Intel has confirmed that this year the volumes of 10nm chips will be low and will increase in 2019, so the company will extend the gum of the 14nm with new processors called Whiskey Lake (whiskey is what they have to drink to forget the problems).

We thought that Coffee Lake was the last family of 14nm processors, that this lithography was not enough for more and possibly so, but Whiskey Lake was based on 14nm and provided, predictably, very little, a 5% performance improvement, being optimistic. Due to the problems to jump to 10nm, Intel has given up its Tick-Tock scheme (new lithography (input or tick), and this lithography is improved (output to another lithography or tock)), for its new PAO model, based in optimizing the manufacturing process of an architecture.

Cascade Lake processors for servers are expected to arrive later this year, while the company says they are shipping 10nm Cannon Lake products in low volumes. The 10nm was planned for 2015, but Intel has encountered many problems to make the jump to the real 10nm and they have already delayed, three times, the launch, jumping from 2017, through the second half of 2018 and now they are placing them in 2019. This has allowed TSMC and GlobalFoundries to cut a lot of ground from the American company. TSMC's and GlobalFoundries '7nm is said to be equivalent to Intel's 10nm, as these companies' nomenclatures are considered more of a marketing strategy than an actual measurement of the full size of the transistor.

'We continue to make progress in our 10 nanometer process. We are shipping in low volume and yields are improving, but the rate of improvement is slower than we anticipated. As a result, volume production is moving from the second half of 2018 to 2019. We understand the performance issues and have defined improvements for them, but they will take time to implement and qualify. We have leading products on the roadmap that continue to leverage 14 nanometers, with Whiskey Lake for customers and Cascade Lake for the data center coming later this year, 'said Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO.

Source: OC3D