Tuesday, March 3rd 2020
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Intel Restarts 14 nm Operations in Costa Rica, Aims to Increase Capacity for Xeon Output
Intel has decided to restart operations in its previously winded-down Costa Rica facilities. An Intel Product Change Notification (PCN) for their Cascade Lake Xeon Scalable processors shows that the company has added Costa Rica to its three other "Test and Finish" sites - the other three are located in Penang (Malaysia), Kulim (Malaysia) and Vietnam. Intel's aim is to guarantee a "continuous supply" of the affected processors - namely, Cascade Lake second-generation Xeon Scalable processors in the Silver, Gold and Platinum lines (in both boxed and tray SKUs).
This move, which will be done in phases. The first implementation of the Costa Rica operations will be effective on April 19th, with the remaining operations to come online on August 3rd. Intel expects to reduce dependency on their other three Test and Finish sites, while being able to bolster final production capacity by some 25% with this move.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
This move, which will be done in phases. The first implementation of the Costa Rica operations will be effective on April 19th, with the remaining operations to come online on August 3rd. Intel expects to reduce dependency on their other three Test and Finish sites, while being able to bolster final production capacity by some 25% with this move.
39 Comments on Intel Restarts 14 nm Operations in Costa Rica, Aims to Increase Capacity for Xeon Output
Hopefully this gets the supply issues resolved for a bit and make more room for 10nm.
wccftech.com/intel-10nm-is-going-to-be-less-productive-than-22nm/
And their N10 node is everyone else's N7.
Oh, remember all the talk of their new stuff being backport capable? They have ZERO confidence in manufacturing.
Throw in that 5nm is slated for Q2 2020 mass production, and even if we make some adjustments for nomenclature and assume that Intel will be able to ramp up 10nm (that is probably a bad assumption given that they are bringing more 14nm back online), and their best case is that they will be 2 entire process node generations behind TSMC and friends if they have 10nm in full swing by 2H 2020.
Intels fail here is epic. They have been on 14nm since 2014. The only reason they have been able to fail so badly and keep market share is because of the work that was done to get them to 14nm far before their competition. But that work was done 10 years ago, and I suspect those folks aren't there anymore.
Changing a CEO and making it to one more node this year is not going to fix that. It is probably a corporate structure / corporate culture problem, one of those places where perception takes precedence over reality. It's been my experience that perception can win for a while, but in the end reality kicks perception in the rear. This type of long term failure is the result.
All in all, fabs and CPU design teams are independent of one another.
www.techcenturion.com/7nm-10nm-14nm-fabrication#nbspnbspnbspnbsp7nm_vs_10nm_vs_12nm_vs_14nm_Transistor_Densities
Skylake uArch is just a tad slower than Zen 2. Yes, read it again. It has several advantages over Zen 2, like better latency, AVX 512 and some disadvantages like lower multi core scaling, 5% lower IPC. Add the same amount of cache to Skylake like in Zen 2 products and you will probably get the same IPC.
Now, Intel has other uArchs in the pipeline, you can imagine that. Ice Lake was supposed to be launched in 2017 and compete with Zen 1. Ice lake would have something like 30-35% higher IPC. Imagine that! Then Tigerlake in 2018. Then Alder Lake in 2019. And Meteor Lake in current days. So it is not like Intel doesn't have the uArch to beat AMD. They have better IP, but THEY DON"T HAVE THE MEANS TO FAB IT. Very hard to understand for some people..............
So in other words, if Intel wouldn't have had problems with fabrication, AMD would be much less successful today. Zen uArch is nothing special. It uses the same concepts Intel introduced with Sandy Bridge and its only merit is the chiplet architecture which allowed AMD to scale the number of cores to crazy amounts.
They wanted to bankrupt AMD once and for all ?
BTW, this is serious, if Intel's N10 had been successful in 2017, nowadays maybe there wouldn't have been any AMD left today!
edit: This is not a good question. We know that high IPC is a result of short pipeline and goes with lower frequencies.
And in order to keep the frequencies up a bit, they tried to develop a very aggressive next-gen node, which failed.
They do have 35% IPC lead but at 3.2 GHz and only a quad-core design, it won't work!
I'm sorry, but I'm not convinced. I'm not gonna hold my breath for this. When the CPUs are released, benchmarked, we will see what they actually bring to the table.
vaaju.com/czechrepubliceng/intel-launches-10nm-ice-lake-processors-they-have-18-better-ipc/
www.anandtech.com/show/15385/intels-confusing-messaging-is-comet-lake-better-than-ice-lake
Here is something www.anandtech.com/show/15385/intels-confusing-messaging-is-comet-lake-better-than-ice-lake
Here is also something www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-intel_core_i7_10700k-1140