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No what is bad is 20A and it makes no sense to waste money on improving it, when it will be immediately replaced by the better 18A. This is an obvious method f
by adrian_b 2y ago
No what is bad is 20A and it makes no sense to waste money on improving it, when it will be immediately replaced by the better 18A.
This is an obvious method for saving money, stop immediately any expenses for fixing 20A and concentrate all efforts to improving the yields of the 18A CMOS process, which is what Intel hopes to use to fabricate all its 2025/2026 server CPUs (Clearwater Forest and Diamond Rapids) and all its 2025/2026 laptop CPUs (Panther Lake).
The gap left by cancelling 20A can be filled more cheaply by outsourcing more to TSMC until the second half of 2025, when 18A should be ready for mass production.