Intel makes it official that it already has the 10nm manufacturing process ready for its next batch of processors, expected to arrive later this year.
The battle within the processor market this year between Intel and AMD will be very strong, with HEDT processors by Intel based on Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X and by AMD with AMD Ryzen. This is only the beginning, since AMD has planned for this year the Raven Ridge APUs and Intel the Coffee Lake and Cannon Lake processors, both architectures manufactured in 10nm, leaving 14nm behind. This is something very important, because Intel becomes the first manufacturer on the market to make 10nm processors.
Intel announces an open secret, which they are already manufacturing in 10nm. This means that the billions of transistors that are integrated in a DIE are 10nm in size and thanks to this advance they can install twice as many transistors compared to competitive processors, placing Intel at the forefront of semiconductors. Intel also ensures that the 10nm process they have developed is pure and that they are a generation ahead of their competitors. It should be noted that not all manufacturing processes and 14nm architectures are the same and that carries over to 10nm.
We have seen in recent years how nanometers have become a fundamental part of the specifications and are used as a means to an end, which is to sell processors. TSMC, for example, has announced the 12nm process, which is a revision of the 16nm process, but there is no change to the actual size.
Regarding what interests us, which is power and performance, it is stated that there will be a 25% performance increase in 10nm, compared to 14nm, which in turn, reduces energy consumption by 45% . Intel is currently manufacturing processors based on the 14nm ++ architecture, which offers 26% energy efficiency over the original 14nm. We also know that 10nm is the beginning, since the next step will be 10nm +, which will improve performance by 15% and energy efficiency by 30% compared to 10nm.
Qualcomm already has ...
We are not talking about the same markets. Qualcomm does not make desktop processors and Intel no longer makes smartphone processors
you are wrong on both points qualcomm has already launched computer processors although now they want to enter to compete directly against intel and amd, it is only a matter of time to see what they come out with, intel also has smartphone processors, in conjunction with asus and other terminals in case you did not know ... although for now there is no talk of the same market soon it will be!
The fact that intel is getting so much out of it to lower the hype to amd means that now if they see them as worthy competition and personally I like it because that way both companies strive to provide better products and each time for lower prices (see the reductions in 6th and 7th g of intel)
Let's hope that with this the consumer will be the one who wins 🙂
Damn, I have to explain everything. Intel focuses 10nm on processors, not mobiles, since its main market is desktop and laptop computers and similar solutions. Qualcomm focuses on mobiles and yes, I know very well that it has solutions for computers, but not desktop at all, they are processors for data centers, servers, telecommunications systems and others. Qualcomm and Intel do NOT compete on the desktop.
Intel launches the 10nm because they already have the manufacturing process optimized and ready to produce, while AMD cannot say this, since to begin with, it does not have its own processor factory because it sold it to Samsung and AMD depends on GlobalFoundries, who makes months I already commented that they still had not polished the 14nm manufacturing process, hence the problems of AMD in some internal technologies of the processor.
The relative simplicity of the ARM architecture allows it to be done more easily along with the fact of its raw performance below x86
If ryzen had not been launched, Intel will continue at 14 nm
It has been known for a year that the Cannon Lake would be 10nm, it is not news.
intel had corrected the data by postponing the 10 nm a few more years, now it seems that it had no choice but to return to the original plan
When Intel has had a 10nm manufacturing process, it has launched itself to manufacture processors in this architecture. It is also true that AMD has not supposed, nor does it suppose, a rival at the height of Intel. Not even with more cores, in gaming, they can with Intel processors. Multithreaded and multithreaded tasks aside.
Yes, AMD is present in a strong way in the rest of the sectors except for gaming, but that is very likely to change and Intel knows it, in fact even the Coffe Lake will be launched under 14 nm, I really don't care what everyone thinks, decides or buys, as long as the necessary competition is maintained so that Intel now announces better processors that will even be, according to him! 30% cheaper than the competition.
Actually, Intel announced 10nm something like 2 years ago, now they are heading for 7nm with the new factory they are building in the US.
14 nm +++++++++++++++
Well that Intel matches the competition and also announces evolution to 10 nm +, which is supposed to be 10nm ++ later.