[The Exiled]

Intel's 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival foundries to get GPUs out for US govt exascale super - šok i vjeverica

CEO Bob Swan suggests his chips may some day be TSMC-flavored. CEO Bob Swan said Intel has identified a defect in its 7nm production process that caused degradation, and has taken steps to address it. Swan said the plan is still to deliver strong performance on products that Intel manufactures, but admitted the x86 giant does have the aforementioned fallback plan of third-party foundries in mind. Using "someone else's process technology" will be no easy feat, by the way. It will involve a lot of design adjustments and squeezing in its foundry orders around other customers, such as Apple, AMD, and nVidia.

Intel's 7nm process node is six months behind schedule, and the yield is a year behind. That means PC processor chips using this node for CPU cores are delayed and won't hit the market until late 2022 or early 2023. A 7nm data-center processor is now expected to arrive the first half of 2023 rather than in 2022 as expected. And its 7nm GPUs codenamed Ponte Vecchio are now due late 2021 or early 2022, which is a bit a problem: Intel promised the accelerators for the US government's $500m exascale Aurora, supercomputer due to be built in 2021. As such, Intel may be forced to turn to outside foundries to produce certain dies, aka chiplets, for its 7nm multi-die-single-package chips, including its Ponte Vecchio parts. Desktop 10nm processors aren't due to land until the second half of next year, though some mobile parts are available now, and server parts are said to arrive this year. In effect, Intel screwed up 10nm, turned to 7nm to make up lost ground, and went off the rails again.

Izvor: The Register

Autor The Exiled

Vraćam se na kraju opet na ono kaj smo već nekoliko puta raspravljali - Intel kroz nekoliko godina postaje fabless i TSMC njima (ko i svima) štanca kaj treba, ali moraju stati u red - iza AMD-a i nVidije.