Allen
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On the competition front -- rumor, leak, speculation:
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Intel Coffee Lake leak reveals alleged specifications of 8th-gen chips
Firm will offer a trio of six-core, 12-thread devices
[3.1GHz, 3.2GHz, and 3.7Ghz base clocks]
..Intel's 8th-gen Coffee Lake chips were supposed to be appearing in 2018 on the 10nm fab node. Instead, though, Intel has put back that challenging manufacturing shift and is producing Coffee Lake on its current 14nm facilities, pushing up the wattage to provide a performance boost...
Meantime, AMD continues is plan to skip the 10nm node and go straight to 7nm. A plan with some risk attached -- but, its where everyone has to go "eventually":
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[AMD's] Papermaster says 7nm is a tough lift
..To gear up for 7nm, “we had to literally double our efforts across foundry and design teams...It’s the toughest lift I’ve seen in a number of generations,” perhaps back to the introduction of copper interconnects, he told EE Times..
..Both AMD’s Zen 2 and Zen 3 x86 processors will be made in 7nm..
“They [Globalfoundries and TSMC] have both been aggressive in 7nm and that’s good for the industry. The gap has closed versus where Intel is at and that’s an incredible juncture in the industry that people have predicted and now were seeing it”, Papermaster added.
