Allen
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From SemiAccurate site:
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Intel kills off the 10nm process
Update October 22, 2018@3:30pm: Intel has denied ending 10nm on Twitter. The full tweet is, “Media reports published today that Intel is ending work on the 10nm process are untrue. We are making good progress on 10nm. Yields are improving consistent with the timeline we shared during our last earnings report.” SemiAccurate stands by its reporting.
For several years now SemiAccurate has been saying the the 10nm process as proposed by Intel would never be financially viable. Now we are hearing from trusted moles that the process is indeed dead and that is a good thing for Intel, if they had continued along their current path the disaster would have been untenable. Our moles are saying the deed has finally been done.
Over many years, SemiAccurate has better than average success on getting mostly true (not always true) deep-mole rumors.. The fact that Intel told stockholders 10nm was on track could be a reason to keep the cancellation secret for now. I think Intel might just as well jump to 7nm, given their serious 10nm problems and the fact that the competition is going 7nm. We'll see who got this one right, eventually.
