Allen
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On the competition front, Intel makes progress on10nm and modifies terminology.
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Ice Lake, our 2nd generation 10nm processor, is taped in. Intel continues to lead in 10nm technology. pic.twitter.com/meY8mZ6ou2
— Intel Official News (@intelnews) June 8, 2017[i][/i]
..a tape-in is not the same as tape-out. A tape out is the last stage of IC design process in which the final design is sent to the fabrication facility to be .. fabricated. It essentially means that the designing stage is over..
A tape in is a relatively newer term that is reserved for complicated SOCs .. various components of the SOC have been finalized by their low-level design teams and handed over (taped-in) to the top level design team which will basically finalize .. before sending it to the fabrication facility (taping out)...
Speculation is that Intel will release the first 10nm products late this year (2017). The main Intel 10nm products are expected in 2018. AMD is rumored to be skipping 10nm and going straight to 7nm (from 14nm). 7nm AMD CPU/GPU rumored to be in development but not expected until 2018 or 2019.