There will be no Intel under 7nm processors until the end of 2022, at the earliest
Intel's situation in the processor market is pretty bad and things are looking bad. The company has announced that the 7nm lithography is being delayed due to problems in the manufacturing process. According to the company, it is delayed at least 6 months from the initially scheduled date. What's more, Intel indicates that 7nm processors would be at least 12 months behind the target.
Remember that Intel has always talked about 7nm as a lithograph that "went better than expected." Although in the end the 7nm would have problems and its production would not be, for the moment, economically viable. At the earliest, therefore, Intel's 7nm would arrive in late 2022 or early 2023.
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The company's CPU production time, under the 7nm manufacturing process, has been delayed approximately six months from previous expectations. The main monitor behind it is the performance of Intel's 7nm manufacturing process, which according to recent data is now about twelve months behind the company's internal target.
During the call to investors
Bob Swan, CEO of Intel, has been the one who has released this information during the call to investors. During the call it was indicated that they have identified a "defect mode" in the 7nm manufacturing. He has also highlighted that they have invested in "contingency plans", which would be based on using foundries like TSMC. The Ponte Vecchio GPUs are likely partially produced by TSMC.
Additionally, they have confirmed that the Alder Lake-S @ 10nm processors will arrive in the second half of 2021. All this increases the problems of the company that has very difficult to compete with the AMD processors.
What AMD has in its favor is that it does not have to invest in R&D for manufacturing processes as it does not have its own plants. But this in turn can be a problem, if not that they tell NVIDIA, which has been forced to make a living. Having your own foundry has its good parts and its bad parts.
[irp]Source: wccftech
