The semiconductor giant, which was once faltering technically, seems to be returning to the table at an alarming rate. Intel has thrown a shock bomb. According to internal news reported by foreign media "wccftech", the performance of test...
The semiconductor giant, which was once faltering technically, seems to be returning to the table at an alarming rate. Intel has thrown a shock bomb. According to internal news reported by foreign media "wccftech", the performance of test chips of Intel's next-generation 14A process has surpassed that of the 18A process, and it is nearly a year ahead of its scheduled official debut. This shows that Intel's advanced process research and development has made astonishing progress beyond expectations.
For Intel's foundry department, the 14A advanced process is the key to determining the company's future chip manufacturing status. However, Intel's financial report in July this year pointed out that if the 14A process cannot attract major external customers or achieve key research and development progress, considering the huge investment costs, development may be slowed down or stopped.
Now it seems that Intel seems to have taken a steady and confident step.
According to the foreign media "wccftech", Intel Chief Financial Officer David Zinsner revealed the optimistic prospects of the 14A process. Under normal circumstances, the performance of early test chips of a new generation process is often not as good as that of the mature previous generation process, and it takes a long time to debug to surpass it. However, the 14A process has shown good performance and yield in the early development stage, indicating that Intel is 14A. The initial practice of the new technology and design architecture of process planning has achieved great success, and the potential has even exceeded initial internal expectations, laying the foundation for the time point of entering risk mass production in 2026.
In addition, if the early test chips of the 14A process have shown signs of surpassing the 18A process, then after one year of improvements, the final mass production version of the 14A chip will have an improvement in key indicators of "performance, power consumption, area (PPA)" that will be worth looking forward to.
Although there is still some time before the 14A process is officially mass-produced, and the ultimate success still depends on yield and cost control, the early performance data is undoubtedly a positive signal, which greatly boosts investors and the market's confidence in the success of Intel's transformation.
The 14A product will determine whether this American chip manufacturer can lead the U.S. chip industry. More importantly, the 14A process expands its business scope. The product is "external customer-centric" and is a key bargaining chip to attract large customers such as Apple, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm.
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