An article from The Motley Fool today outlines how Intel's troubled 10nm manufacturing may end up falling even further behind TSMC. Intel had originally planned to release it's 10nm chips in 2016, which was pushed to 2017, then pushed again to 2018, then a few weeks ago 10nm was delayed yet again. Today the article from the Motley Fool is saying that if all goes as planned, the Cannon Lake 10nm Intel chips should go in mass production, sometime in 2019. These delays are putting Intel about a year behind rival TSMC, who is slated to be mass producing 5nm chips in the second half of 2020.
This could honestly be a massive problem for Intel going forward. In my opinion they sat on their hands too long with the 3-5% performance increases, while their competitors snuck up on them in a big way.
If things don't go well for Intel, then we could see the first 10nm+ products in the second half of 2019, with the 10nm++ products coming in the second half of 2020. Such a schedule would likely mean the first 7nm products wouldn't arrive until the second half of 2021, or potentially even early 2022.
This could honestly be a massive problem for Intel going forward. In my opinion they sat on their hands too long with the 3-5% performance increases, while their competitors snuck up on them in a big way.
If things don't go well for Intel, then we could see the first 10nm+ products in the second half of 2019, with the 10nm++ products coming in the second half of 2020. Such a schedule would likely mean the first 7nm products wouldn't arrive until the second half of 2021, or potentially even early 2022.