This delay prompted the new CEO, Bob Swan, to recently say that Intel may look to outsource the manufacturing of all chips at the 7nm process node. That said has anyone seen a TSMC or Samsung 7nm sample yet ? This would leave the company – at least for leading-edge design and production – as merely another fabless semiconductor vendor. All rights reserved. And now, on top of the manufacturing concerns, Intel has announced the sale of its NAND memory business to Hynix. While Intel is struggling in data centers, NVIDIA is making strides with its new Ampere architecture. Until just recently, Intel were masters of this craft. If it went fabless it would just become another average fabless company that tried to sell its products at higher prices. Intel originally planned 10nm for 2015 and, earlier this year, briefly disclosed details of two 10nm Cannon Lake processors but later dropped reference to the parts from its site. Build a Socially Distant Halloween Candy Slide, Q&A with Jenny McCall, Event Director, The Battery Show & EV Tech Digital Days, New Electrolyte Material Improves Safety, Performance of Li Batteries, Carbon Fiber Steps Up Game in Basketball Shoe, Toyota Driver Monitoring Sensors Could Detect Heart Trouble, 15 Semiconductor Milestones That Created the Modern World, Allowed HTML tags:

. Remaining 15% is I/O. The reason for this is Intel processors are still dominated by logic (60%) and they achieved a better die area by changing the transistor gate contact to suit logic rather than the SRAM cells (25%). And then there are the issues with China, specifically, if China invades and takes over Taiwan as it did with Hong Kong. SK Hynix will acquire from Intel the remaining assets, including IP related to the manufacture and design of NAND flash wafers, R&D employees, and the Dalian fab workforce, upon a final closing expected to occur in March 2025 with the remaining payment of US $2 billion.”. There is nothing wrong with that approach to business as it deals with the extreme complexity of designing chips. Read our special supplement celebrating 60 years of Electronics Weekly and looking ahead to the future of the industry.

The company had planned to continue that method until it began having major problems with, first the 10nanometer process node and, more critically, the 7nm node. Glad to see you call all these processes ‘so-called’ though – I wouldn’t give any of them better than a 12nm. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. I think though, Mike, it becomes a trifle more relevant when Samsung and TSMC are running product on these so-called 7nm processes while Intel is not producing anything much, so far as we know, on its so-called 10nm process. Intel will retain its Optane business and intends to invest transaction proceeds in long-term growth priorities such as AI, 5G networking, and intelligent, autonomous edge products. Few things are more difficult – both at the scientific and engineering levels – than designing chips that are getting closer to the size of atoms, i.e., 7nm and below. Approximately 75% of Intel's semiconductor fabrication is performed in the USA. Meanwhile, Samsung and TSMC become the only companies actually making leading-edge logic. We've scanned the very first edition so you can enjoy it. Its production yields on the next iteration of chips at 7m have been low, thus delaying the release of these chips by at least 6 months – and the time-to-market (TTM) clock is ticking. In 2017, Intel lost its 24 year position as the largest chip manufacturer, now it may have lost its leading position in chip manufacturing technology. Where does that leave the US in a very competitive global semiconductor market? Photo: Reuters, Investors sold Intel’s stock and it lost around US$50 billion in valuation, while TSMC saw its market valuation increase by over 50 per cent in the same period, Apple’s decision to use ARM instead of Intel gave TSMC the learning curve advantage which over time enabled it to pull ahead in manufacturing process technology.