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Intel CPU Roadmap Leaked – To Continue Using 14nm Well Into 2021
14nm “Rocket Lake” Alongside 10nm “Tiger Lake” A massive leak of Intel‘s 2018 to 2021 roadmap has surfaced, courtesy of Tweakers.net. It shows not only the chip company’s plans for their desktop, but laptop processors as well. Considering the underwhelming, and unusually quiet launch of the latest 9th gen CPUs,…
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Intel CPU Shortages Expected to Continue Through Q2 2019
Supply Problem Persists Analysts Suggest In case you think Intel CPUs are in short supply now, the problem is apparently only going to get worse. This is according to analysts at DigiTimes Research who expect Intel CPUs’ supply gap to grow 1-2pp sequentially in the second quarter of 2019. Worse,…
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Chinese Fab SMIC Will Start 14nm Production in 2019
SMIC Will Deliver 14nm SoC in 1H 2019 When it comes to major processor fabs, Intel, Samsung, TSMC, GlobalFoundries and IBM are the leaders. Over the years, the various smaller fabs have consolidated into these giants. Due to the massive expense and expertise involved, even these fabs have troubles sometimes…
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Intel Ready to Start D1X Oregon Fab Expansion
Intel Plans Oregon Expansion For 2019 Last year, Intel announced plans for major fab expansions. At the time, the company revealed that 3 locations were going to see the new fab capacity. These were Oregon, Israel and Ireland. This month, the company started to provide more details about the Oregon expansion.…
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Intel NUCs with 10nm CPUs Now Available in the US
Intel 10nm is Here (Sort Of…) Intel‘s Crimson Canyon Next Unit of Computing (NUC) mini-PCs have arrived in major US retail stores. These are equipped with their latest 10nm Cannon Lake processors with an 8th Gen architecture. This is a somewhat exciting development considering the troubles the company has had…
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Intel May Sacrifice Retail Supply to Please OEMs
Intel Will Prioritize OEM Shipments Since the start of Q3 2018, Intel has been suffering from a major CPU shortage. Intel’s 14nm supply has been oversubscribed due to problems with 10nm. After admitting to the problem, the company promised to do more to fix the problem. Despite that, the company…
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Intel Announces December 11th Architecture Event
Intel Wants to Talk Architecture With their old new architecture launches, Intel has always been quite generous in terms of the details they provide. Over the past couple of years, things have taken a shift to less information. There have possibly been 2 main factors to this, with a lack…
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Intel Splits Manufacturing Division Into 3 Groups
Intel Shakes Up Manufacturing Group Over the past couple of months, things have not been going that well at Intel. The main problems are coming in from their manufacturing group, with delays to 10nm and shortages of 14nm chips. Despite the issues, the company has been chugging along financially. However, the…
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Intel Denies Rumour About Cancellation of 10nm Process
Intel Claims 10nm is “Making Good Progress” Once upon a time, Intel was the undisputed leader in the silicon foundry business. With the tick-tock strategy, a new process node rolled out every 2 years. However, since the start of 14nm, things have slowed down dramatically. 10nm has been even worse,…
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Interim Intel CEO Pens Open Letter to Address Supply Concerns
Supply Update from Intel CFO and Interim CEO Robert Swan In case you have not been paying attention to Intel in the news lately, the company has been facing several issues which are affecting their output. The first problem began when they had to push back 10nm production, requiring them…
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Intel Ramp Up More 14nm Chip Testing Resources
Intel Points Finger at Testing Resources Due to issues with the 10n process, Intel has been struggling with a 14nm shortage. In the past month or so, the shortages have gotten pretty bad. So far, reports have indicated that the shortages are due to lack of 14nm production capacity. In…
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Intel CPU Shortage To Get Worst Before The End Of The Year
Intel CPU Shortage To Get Worst Before The End Of The Year We are literally only weeks away before we get a closer look at Intel’s new line of CPUs. With a lot of excitement building about their performance levels, there have been growing concerns that there may be major…
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Intel Confirms Xeon CPU Roadmap – 10nm Ice Lake by 2020
Cascade Lake-SP and Beyond Intel has announced their official Xeon roadmap up to 2020 at Santa Clara today. This confirms the rumours that their upcoming Cascade Lake-SP as well as Cooper Lake-SP will remain in 14nm. The Cascade Lake server platform is expected to arrive Q4 2018. With it comes…
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Intel Stuck With Ageing 14nm For Another Year
Intel 10nm Launch Slips to Holiday 2019 Once the dominant semiconductor foundry, Intel has now fallen on tougher times. Intel first debuted their current mainstream 14nm process back in 2014. The plan was that the company would transition to 10nm sometime in 2016 or 2017. Unfortunately, those plans did not…
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Intel Debuts First 10nm Cannon Lake Processor
Intel’s First Cannon Lake CPU Core i3 8121U A few years ago, Intel started extending each new process node. Due to the complexities of silicon development, moving to a new process every two years was unsustainable. Starting with 22nm, the delays started to pile on. Eventually, Intel formalized the delays…
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