Why Intel Leads the World In Semiconductor Manufacturing

MrSeb writes "When Intel launched Ivy Bridge last week, it didn't just release a new CPU — it set a new record. By launching 22nm parts at a time when its competitors (TSMC and GlobalFoundries) are still ramping their own 32/28nm designs, Intel gave notice that it's now running a full process node ahead of the rest of the semiconductor industry. That's an unprecedented gap and a fairly recent development; the company only began pulling away from the rest of the industry in 2006, when it launched 65nm. With the help of Mark Bohr, Senior Intel Fellow and the Director of Process Architecture and Integration, this article explains how Intel has managed to pull so far ahead."

Comments

What's the mystery?

[Anonymous Coward]

Andy Grove paid billions to get access to Area 51 alien technology back in 1998. What's so hard to understand?

Re:What's the mystery?

[Chrisq]

Andy Grove paid billions to get access to Area 51 alien technology back in 1998. What's so hard to understand?

Ah its that chip from the android that came from the future. What could possibly go wrong.

Re:Hmmm.

[Anonymous Coward]

Spying... on their competitors who are all years behind them?

You must be pretty high up in the CIA to have thought of such a genius spying scheme.

Re:Fab has become a service

[geekoid]

"Consider the Auto analogy."
No.