During the second half of 2022, this new node from the company will start mass production.
If a couple of months ago Intel was saying that its shortage forecasts would go until 2024, today we read in DigiTimes that the node Intel 4the 7 nm equivalent, which will use EUV lithography, will go into mass production. during the second half of 2022. This new change of heart surfaced during the IEEE VLSI symposium a month ago, where the US company was preparing us for a “semiconductor production node reduction”.
We are talking about a 20% performance improvement while maintaining the same power consumption, or 40% if we are talking about the same frequency. On the other hand, thanks to that lithography, the transistor density would double compared to Intel 7 (i.e., the 10 nm ESF). This news comes as a breath of fresh air, given that the Santa Clara has been having trouble catching up with the “race against Moore’s Law” for years now.
With this, the new node will be central to the manufacturing and prosperity of the Meteor Lake series, which would be the 14th generation of consumer processors, and the so-called Granite Rapids, which will correspond to enterprise processors. All of this while the Raptor Lakewhich make up the 13th generation of consumer processors, and seeing the potential of the Meteor Lake (compared to the Ryzen 7000, for example), this other generation looks like a filler between series. Anyway, this kind of news always comes in handy so that the market to keep going.
