Wednesday, December 23rd 2020
Intel Expands 10nm Manufacturing Capacity
In response to incredible customer demand, Intel has doubled its combined 14 nm and 10 nm manufacturing capacity over the past few years. To do this, the company found innovative ways to deliver more output within existing capacity through yield improvement projects and significant investments in capacity expansion. This video recounts that journey, which even included re-purposing existing lab and office space for manufacturing.
"Over the last three years, we have doubled our wafer volume capacity, and that was a significant investment. Moving forward, we're not stopping… We are continuing to invest into factory capacity to ensure we can keep up with the growing needs of our customers," says Keyvan Esfarjani, senior vice president and general manager of Manufacturing and Operations at Intel. The company also ramped its new 10 nm process this year. Intel currently manufactures 10 nm products in high volumes at its Oregon and Arizona sites in the U.S. and its site in Israel.
In 2020, Intel introduced an expanding lineup of 10 nm products including 11th Gen Intel Core processors and the Intel Atom P5900, a system-on-chip for wireless base stations. In addition, the company introduced 10 nm SuperFin technology, which enables the largest single intranode enhancement in Intel's history and delivers performance improvements comparable to a full-node transition.
Esfarjani explains: "10 nm progress is coming along quite well. We have three high-volume manufacturing operations that are going full steam ahead to see how we can do more, better and faster, and continue to support our customers."
NOTE: Intel's capacity expansion program has been a multiyear journey. The factory and office footage in this video was captured prior to Covid-19 safety measures. Intel workers currently working on-site observe appropriate social distancing and mask measures in accordance with internal policies and local requirements.
"Over the last three years, we have doubled our wafer volume capacity, and that was a significant investment. Moving forward, we're not stopping… We are continuing to invest into factory capacity to ensure we can keep up with the growing needs of our customers," says Keyvan Esfarjani, senior vice president and general manager of Manufacturing and Operations at Intel. The company also ramped its new 10 nm process this year. Intel currently manufactures 10 nm products in high volumes at its Oregon and Arizona sites in the U.S. and its site in Israel.
Esfarjani explains: "10 nm progress is coming along quite well. We have three high-volume manufacturing operations that are going full steam ahead to see how we can do more, better and faster, and continue to support our customers."
NOTE: Intel's capacity expansion program has been a multiyear journey. The factory and office footage in this video was captured prior to Covid-19 safety measures. Intel workers currently working on-site observe appropriate social distancing and mask measures in accordance with internal policies and local requirements.
66 Comments on Intel Expands 10nm Manufacturing Capacity
Yes is problem to got some products but reasons is not inner.
"AMD latest products are hard to find in stock": Really? As far as I know, all UK based pre-orders are basically cleared. Even I have my own 5950X up and running, even though I ordered it a couple days after launch (I never pre-order anything).
"IT IS TRUE AND IS REALLY COMING": Let it come. Competition is good for the market. I just don't understand why you felt the need to use all capitals to get your point across.
AMD is now worth over 100 billion, double that of beginning of the year, crazy times we live in.Ah yes, control over quantity, clearly they just happened to have chosen that 10nm should have no quantity as such for the past few years. The mystery was finally solved.
They leaned a big mirror against it.
TSMC leading the semiconductor foundry race, Samsung getting better with Nvidia and Qualcomm on board.
The rise of ARM. Apple, Qualcomm, AWS, Nvidia's deal, Microsoft, Windows on ARM, Neoverse, A64FX, Nuvia.
The rebirth of AMD.
When was the last time (if ever) Intel's empire was under such onslaught?
Probably, i'm missing other "threat vectors".
If anything AMD will extend advantage in x86 space, because despite finally gearing up 10nm (++ already?) node Intel chips are still behind on architectural improvements. They basically rehashing Nehalem for last 10 years, last 8 "generations" have roots in 2008. On one side I wish AMD all the best, on the other I wish Intel deliver monstrous sledgehammer as they did before when AMD got complacent and Intel came with Core/Nehalem architecture which in turn left AMD in smoke for a decade+. That's progress.
But don't forget ARM. If new M1 Macs are anything to go by then Apple will have huge market for all (yeah maybe even gaming). I'm mightily impressed with tiny M1 rendering in Blender via Rosetta 2 inside like 15W power envelope with performance which put to shame many CPUs released in past 10 years. And with 32 cores on the horizon... oh boy we have very interesting 5 years ahead of us. AMD and Intel maybe soon forced to join forces, because x86 is dead man walking anyway so... enemy of my enemy...
Stranger things has happened! :D
I reckon Intel are working on something. Remember no one was expecting core2duo then it basically wiped AMD off the map for years. They could indeed do the same again, it is not impossible.
And i meant, all the amd fans poking fun at Intel will be quick to switch back if/when they pull another core2duo and release something that wipes out AMD's lead again.
Personally, I think Intel is in the lucky position to be present in many other markets besides desktop DIY. Even if they stop producing competitive desktop products, they will still be able to make loads of money on the mobile, datacentre, and other markets. They are a leading designer of quantum computing too. Heck, even the WiFi adapter on my AMD-based motherboard is made by Intel. Sure, AMD is strong on the desktop CPU market with Ryzen, and Navi is getting better and better on the GPU market. I still think that Intel holds enough shares in many other markets so that their lack of competitive desktop processors is not a serious problem.
I can't wait to see what Intel do, no doubt the rehashed current stuff is not gonna do it.
I am sick of all the stupid 14nm±++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ crap on tpu though. Wait till AMD get stuck on 10nm or 7nm and watch the +'s mount up, won't be so funny then I bet.
Meanwhile ignoring the elephant in the room that is, THE RISE of ARM.
Will you address the point? The industry moving away from Intel's x86, with advanced semiconductor foundries (TSMC/Samsung) to facilitate the transition or will you continue to focus on AMD.