Intel cancels 14nm Setup for Fab 42 Fabrication Plant

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Intel Delays Fab 42 Heating and Air Conditioning installed but None of the actual Fabrication Equipment.

Before you start ranting along the lines of “what? no 14nm?!?” and “Intel is doomed”, please let me clarify. There will still be a 14nm, just not from Fab 42 and no this cannot be taken in any economically sane universe as a sign that Intel is dying. However the one thing that cannot be denied is that Intel is taking pressure from the entire ARM industry. Building fabrication foundries is very capital intensive and since any given company exists to sell itself, it is understandable that Intel would delay Fab 42, which is located in Arizona.

Intel also hinted that Intel will instead utilize the brand new Fab 42 directly for 10nm production. And unlike AMD, Intel has multiple fabrication plants, where it will ramp up production to 14nm while its flagship Fab 42 will remain dormant till 10nm( or so we are told). It was more or less implied that the reason for this decision is two fold, one is of course the logical economic argument and the second is that Intel is taking heat from ARM competition and it needs to focus on the current market without taking any risks.

 

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[Advent]

*fabfabfabfabfabfabfab*

[qwertywarrior]

look intel

we all know this

stop it with this BS shrinking process and start stacking chips

[Ertman]

First you shrink, the stack.

[nicholaswillems]

Is that new fab located near any older fabs or is it on a brand new location?

[Kamina]

So what happens once Intel reaches 7, 5, or even 1nm if possible? Stacking dies on top of each other? Go all ARM-Based and say good bye to transitional desktop computers? Or do we use something else other than Silicon? It's scary seeing how Moore's Law won't last forever.

[Advent]

So what happens once Intel reaches 7, 5, or even 1nm if possible? Stacking dies on top of each other? Go all ARM-Based and say good bye to transitional desktop computers? Or do we use something else other than Silicon? It's scary seeing how Moore's Law won't last forever.

Moore's law need not apply if we use something other than silicon. Which is the direction we are headed. Or we use heatpipes built into the chip itself which they are already researching.

[flibberdipper]

Seems like we just had 90nm chips... I love my 45nm Atom N270, even though it is pretty damn slow.