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“Media reports published today that Intel is ending work on the 10nm process are untrue. We are making good progress on 10nm. Yields are improving consistent with the timeline we shared during our last earnings report.”
Read with this Oct.18 news together:<p>Intel Split Technology and Manufacturing Into 3 Divisions
<a href="https://www.game-debate.com/news/25940/intel-split-technology-and-manufacturing-into-3-divisions-amid-crisis-in-manufacturing" rel="nofollow">https://www.game-debate.com/news/25940/intel-split-technolog...</a><p>As of this week, Intel has announced it’s splitting its manufacturing group into three distinct segments in a massive shake-up aimed at bolstering its development.<p>The move is tied into the departure of long-time senior VP Sohail Ahmed, who’s been with Intel for 34 years and is currently the head of technology and manufacturing at Intel. Ahmed will be moving on shortly, and Intel will be using this moment to restructure its business.
If this is true, then we will likely see MacBooks with 7nm A12+ in 2019 or 2020. They might surpass Intel on raw performance if TSMC's 7nm process is good (and Apple paid a lot of its R&D costs).
I'm thinking this is not true. This is the core of Intel's business, I'd be shocked if they decided to kill it off. They may miss a deadline, maybe two - however if they want to survive as the behemoth they are today, they'll have to deliver.
The most interesting question is whether the dead Intel process node should be blamed on bad choices (e.g. deferring adoption of EUV lithography) or on incompetence, and also on shortsighted financial management or on optimistic/clueless technical leadership: we can live without Cannon Lake CPUs, but where will Intel be in 5 years?
So is this legit? Mods have been killing this story with "NSFB" flag on /r/intel almost as fast as Intel killed 10nm for the past few hours. Not safe for who's business exactly in this case?
Can someone who has access tell us what information the paywalled article is using to make this claim?
EDIT: an r/hardware post is claiming the article is based on anonymous sources that the author knows at Intel. The article claims Intel is abandoning the 10nm roadmap --> no Icelake 10nm+? Intel also had some issues with 14nm which is why Broadwell-S and Broadwell came out at the same time. Whatever the case, Intel will probably have to respond to this.
That begs a question why something so important as CPU development has been left to a private company? Wouldn't be better to nationalise Intel and make sure it develops CPU that can serve the people and help advance the society? Corporate interests are not always good for the humanity and I think it is time for a state to step in. Intel has been having free reign for too long.