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Intel Tock-Ticks Chipsets Back to 22nm
We've confirmed through multiple sources that Intel is fabbing its new H310C chipset on its 22nm process. That means the chip-making giant has taken a step back to an older process for the H310C chipset as it struggles with its ongoing shortage of 14nm processors. Contrary to recent reports, our sources confirmed Intel manufactures these chips and not TSMC (which has been reported in recent weeks), though that could be subject to change in the future.
The shift in Intel's strategy comes as the company struggles with the fallout from its chronically delayed 10nm process. Now the company is dealing with an increasingly loud chorus of reports that Intel's 14nm shortage is now impacting its server, desktop and mobile chips.
[...] Intel typically produces chipsets on a larger node than its current-gen processors, but the delayed 10nm production has found both chipsets and chips on the same 14nm node, creating a manufacturing bottleneck as the company experiences record demand for 14nm processors.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by edIII on Friday September 21 2018, @04:29AM (1 child)
I'm not personally a big fan of either AMD or Intel. My question is what nm could a fully open source open hardware model produce? Assuming we could reasonably create a maker of some kind capable of creating the chips.
For security reasons I've been increasingly looking toward binary/blob free offering on the market, and the nm process just isn't that much of a deal breaker. At least not until you get to mobile considerations.
What would be the royalty free nm process that we could all use?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 21 2018, @02:37PM
Everything is negotiable - the price of advanced foundries are in Billions, so royalties are just a way of financing the investment.
If you've got the cash up front, you can purchase somebody's excess capacity without a licensing component, but if you go not even too far back in tech (to foundry capacity you might be able to purchase for mere millions per year of facility maintenance costs) you'll be disappointed to find that a Raspberry-Pi capable chipset might draw 100+ watts.
Reminds me of when I was looking at acquisition of an MRI - instead of scrounging time here and there on other people's magnets at $500 per hour, why not buy an older model for ~$100K? Well, because the $100K is the cheap end of owning an MRI - you need a rather large dedicated room for it, with a faraday cage, a supply of cryo-coolant, unusual power supply to get the magnet up to speed, etc.
For chip foundries, start with a clean room - and keeping staff properly trained to keep that clean room functioning within spec...
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