It took a few years longer than expected for Intel to make the move from 14nm to 10nm processors… and the company still hasn’t completed that transition. Only some 10th-gen Intel Core chips are manufactured using a 10nm process, while others are 14nm chips. But according to a presentation slide from one of Intel’s partners […]
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AMD: 7nm Zen 2 processors coming in 2019
Intel may be struggling to get 10nm processors out the door, but rival chip maker AMD is already shipping 12nm processors… and AMD CEO Lisa Su says the company is almost ready to make the move to 7nm. AMD’s next-gen “Zen 2” architecture is manufactured on a 7nm processor, and Su says the company plans […]
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Intel’s Tick-Tock chip upgrade strategy now looks more like Tick-Tock-Tock
For the past decade, Intel has used a “Tick-Tock” strategy for producing new processors. For every “tick,” Intel would would produce a new chip using a new lithographic process (the move from 32nm to 22nm to 14nm, for example). Then the company’s next chip would be a “tock,” which means it would use the same […]