Well, this has been the discussion about porting it to 14++, but presumably they need a higher density to cram a bunch of extra transistors into the design. Hin

Well, this has been the discussion about porting it to 14++, but presumably they need a higher density to cram a bunch of extra transistors into the design. Hindsight at this point, but a big rich company like intel, should have had a fallback plan to port it to 7nm (or whatever) at TSMC a couple years ago to keep the pipeline full. It would have been a huge black eye, but at least they would have been moving forward while they straighten out their own manufacturing story.