01-13-2021, 08:20 AM
https://www.techpowerup.com/277111/intel...-an-option
Quote:Semiconductor manufacturing is not an easy feat to achieve. Especially if you are constantly chasing the smaller and smaller node. Intel knows this the best. The company has had a smooth transition from other nodes to the smaller ones until the 10 nm node came up. It has brought Intel years of additional delay and tons of cost improving the yields of a node that was seeming broken. Yesterday the company announced the new Tiger Lake-H processors for laptops that are built using the 10 nm process, however, we are questioning whatever Intel can keep up with the semiconductor industry and deliver the newest nodes on time, and with ease. During an interview with Intel's CEO Bob Swan, we can get a glimpse of Intel's plans for the future of semiconductors at the company.
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Just like GlobalFoundries licensed 14 nm technology from Samsung Electronics to produce the node at GlobalFoundries facilities, the same would apply to Intel. However, that is only considered as an option for now. Intel has made a lot of development on the next-generation nodes as well, and that is not counting the current 10 nm one. The 7 nm is going to arrive shortly, and even smaller nodes are in R&D phases. Licensing a node from someone else would simply null Intel's efforts so we have to wait and see how it plays out. Simply put, Intel has no plans in dropping its Fabs as it is the company's competitive advantage and it only plans to grow.