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Intel's Tick-Tock Cycle Skips a Beat

Posted by Soulskill on from the tock-amongst-yourselves dept.

New submitter Ramze writes: Several outlets are reporting on Intel's confirmation that it will make three generations of 14nm processors, delaying the switch to 10nm. The planned 14nm Kaby Lake processor marks the first time Intel has skipped the "tick" of a die shrink on its regular "tick/tock" cycle. Production of Cannonlake processors on 10nm has been pushed back to the second half of 2017 — likely due to manufacturing difficulties. Intel reported earlier this year that it may have to switch away from silicon to exotic materials such as indium gallium arsenide to make the next shrink to 7nm.

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  1. The Valley will never be the same... by ketso · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi there, young entrepreneur! Welcome to the Indium Gallium Arsenide Valley! :)

  2. Re: Boring. by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know - the transistor count should have enabled us to build neural nets to filter out inane AC comments by now.

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  3. Intel Marketing slogan by DougOtto · · Score: 4, Funny

    This just in from Intel Markteting:

    "Vee have vays of making you tock!"

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  4. Re: Boring. by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why build neural networks when you can get the wild-type ones to do the same work in exchange for 'mod points'? Markedly more cost effective.