[News] Intel Stuck with 14nm Processors Till Holiday 2019

[StyM]

https://www.techpowerup.com/246306/i...l-holiday-2019

Wrap your head around this: at some point in 2019, AMD will be selling 7 nm processors while Intel sells 14 nm processors. That how grim Intel's 10 nanometer silicon fabrication process development is looking. In the Q&A session of its Q2-2018 Earnings Call, Intel stated that the first products based on its 10 nm process will arrive only by Holiday 2019, making 14 nm micro-architectures hold the fort for not just the rest of 2018, but also most of 2019. In the client-segment, Intel is on the verge of launching its 9th generation Core "Whiskey Lake" processor family, its 5th micro-architecture on the 14 nm node after "Broadwell," "Skylake," "Kaby Lake," and "Coffee Lake."

It's likely that "Whiskey Lake" will take Intel into 2019 after the company establishes performance leadership over 12 nm AMD "Pinnacle Ridge" with a new round of core-count increases. Intel is also squeezing out competitiveness in its HEDT segment by launching new 20-core and 22-core LGA2066 processors; and a new platform with up to 28 cores and broader memory interface. AMD, meanwhile, hopes to have the first 7 nm EPYC processors out by late-2018. Client-segment products based on its architecture, however, will follow the roll-out of these enterprise parts. We could see a point in 2019 when AMD launches its 7 nm 3rd generation Ryzen processors in the absence of competing 10 nm Core processors from Intel. Posted below is an Intel slide from 2013, when the company was expecting 10 nm rollout by 2015. That's how much its plans have derailed.

[iddqd]

Guys, 10nm is only 6 months away!!!
-Brian Krzanich, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

[Buckeye]

They should be concentrating on a complete new replacement, maybe Graphene like the last picture. Once they hit below 10nm they will hit a hard wall unless they change materials.
Its hard to think that AMD can get below 7nm... what's next ??

[iddqd]

Its hard to think that AMD can get below 7nm... what's next ??

4-5nm is probably still doable with trigate finFETs - although, the 4-gate variety ("gate-all-around") seems like it might become necessary around those dimensions. You could also do GAA with a nanowire channel to further attempt to minimize leakage.
At this point, you're a stone's throw away from having a single-electron transistor. Once you achieve that, there isn't really much left to improve, gate-wise. Although you could probably still make some improvements in other area of the process.