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Intel's Tick-Tock Cycle Skips a Beat
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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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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Look at Intel's recent earning and revenues. Business is so bad it doesn't justify investing money in a new engineering shrink.
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This just in from Intel Markteting:
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Solving Unix problems since 1989...
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.
Intel is stalling at 14nm. Everyone else stalled at 28nm. 28nm is still the cheapest node in per transistor terms. Since most chip makers are driven by cost rather than transistor performance, there have been few takers for 20nm and 14nm.