Intel has rejected the abolition of the 10nm news distributed via the Internet news. Via Videocardz, following statement on the news is made available to the press:
“Press reports released today that Intel is finishing work on the 10nm process are false. At 10nm, we are making good progress. The yields continue to improve in accordance with the timetable outlined in our last results report.”
Intel’s 10nm manufacturing process triggers problems for the company since years, so it is expected that consumer products will enter the market by the end of 2019 once they are planned for 2015. New information points that Intel may have dropped 10 nm.
Originally, the 10nm process was supposed to be ready by 2015, but it has been delayed repeatedly, allowing competitors like TSMC and Samsung to compete with the former market leader in silicon manufacturing. Now there are reports that Intel has abolished its 10 nm manufacturing process, with SemiAccurate being the first to report such a change.
The report comes in conjunction with reports of a major reorganization within Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group, which will divide the group into three divisions, an ideal time to abandon the 10 nm and develop a new node that will eliminate the apparently impossible challenges of this process. If the SemiAcurate report is true, then it is impossible to know how this news will affect the roadmap for Intel products, and any further delay in creating a new next-generation product node will give AMD a competitive advantage by leveraging TSMC’s 7nm node with its Zen 2 architecture.
In the short term, the death of the 10nm Intel would cause many financial problems as the market expects Intel to have the 14nm in the near future. However, if Intel’s current 10nm node had been as bad as reported, it is likely that retaining the company’s current course would be more damaging to the company in the long run.
Finally, Intel could use TSMC’s 7nm process to build its new processors, even though that would be a devastating shock to the company’s pride.