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Intel on Track to Start Making 14nm “Broadwell” Chips in 2013

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Intel Corp. confirmed during the conference call with financial analysts on Thursday that it is on track to begin making chips using 14nm process technology later this year. The company already started to assign space and equipment for 14nm product lines back in the fourth quarter of 2012 and is confident about its plans.

“We will begin our transition to 14nm as we begin the world's first 14 nanometer products towards the end of this year,” said Paul Otellini, chief executive officer of Intel, who is planning to retire in May.

Stacy Smith, the chief financial officer of the company, added that Intel started to “to redirect fab space and equipment to 14nm” back in Q4 2012 and that Intel is on-track to “start production on the 14nm process this year”. The CFO of the company did not elaborate which fabs are set to produce 14nm chips code-named Broadwell later this year.

In mid-2012 Intel announced that its Fab D1X in Oregon, Fab 42 in Arizona and Fab 24 in Ireland will be converted to make 14nm chips. Later on, the situation with the Fab 24’s upgrade got unclear due to market rumours, but Intel did not make any official statements

Originally, Intel referred to its current 14nm process technology as to 16nm since "16 nm" term firstly came from the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). Nowadays Intel and other companies, including Globalfoundries and Samsung, are working on 14nm fabrication technologies for next-generation chips.
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http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/...tart_Making_14nm_Broadwell_Chips_in_2013.html
 
Production on 14nm I would have thought, with 14nm CPUs in mid to late 2014. Otherwise Haswell doesn't have much of a lifetime and no time for ironing out the bugs of the process. Will probably be churning out bulk stuff like memory chips at first.
 
gregster said:
It will be production. It will require a new mobo to go with it (LGA 1150). I would imagine 2015 for release but no dates confirmed. The IGPU is rumoured to be 3x faster than the current HD4000.

http://uk.hardware.info/news/32431/intel-haswell-and-broadwell-processors-3x-faster-igp
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I would be careful about such claims from websites as they are going a bit nutty and inflating the performance improvement claims. Even in that article,they first say the HD4600 is twice as fast and now it is three times as fast. Intel has only said twice as fast so far and IIRC I think it was the GT3 version too.

However, Intel said that the HD4000 would be twice as fast too and it seems that the comparison was with the HD2000. Moreover,the IGP is called HD4600 for the GT2 which means it might as not a big jump as some articles are indicating(otherwise it would be called a HD5000 series IGP), and it will not have any embedded memory too for desktop versions.

The top end Haswell IGP is GT3 with embedded memory which will be the in mobile space,and it costs a decent amount more than normal GT2 and GT3 versions. The GT3 version has 2.5X the number of shaders of the GT1.
 
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Jokester said:
Production on 14nm I would have thought, with 14nm CPUs in mid to late 2014. Otherwise Haswell doesn't have much of a lifetime and no time for ironing out the bugs of the process. Will probably be churning out bulk stuff like memory chips at first.
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This.

I'd say Broadwell (14nm) Q2-Q3 2014, then Skylake same time in 2015, then the shrink to 10nm for Skymont in 2016.
 
Tute said:
This.

I'd say Broadwell (14nm) Q2-Q3 2014, then Skylake same time in 2015, then the shrink to 10nm for Skymont in 2016.
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I read on another site that Q2-Q3 of 2014 but I feel 2015 would be the earliest. I have been wrong on many occasions though :p

@ Cat.

I agree with you mate. Nothing in stone and citations of X3 faster than HD4000 and any performance should be taken with a pinch or even a bucket of salt. I am just giving info that is published.

One thing I am pleased about is the Desktop chip still being supported. Recent rumours of new chips for laptops and no desktop support has been quite deflating. As a computer user since the rubber keys of the speccy, I would hate to see laptops being the only source for computer gaming.
 
jomiyo said:
Wonder what the physical limits will be. 10nm is already planned for 'Skymont', but how far can they go... 8nm, 4nm... .**nm?
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The next step down after nanometer is pico, but i dont know if that is possible...

Would be incredible to have a picometer-scale processor though :p

EDIT: ^Ah, well exactly
 
gregster said:
I read on another site that Q2-Q3 of 2014 but I feel 2015 would be the earliest. I have been wrong on many occasions though :p
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Depends totally on when Haswell launches this year and how things pan out, etc. - I do think Intel are trying to stick to one new tick or tock each year so I would be surprised to see it slip to 2015 mind. :)
 
Orcvader said:
A lot of manufacturers seems to be applying for a lot of graphene patents: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20975580

This is another possible step but currently as far as I know to make the actual transistors with them is very, very tricky stuff.
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This won't be for years surely? But due to the conductivity and resistance this material can withstand, can you imagine the volts you could pump through it? TASTY SPEEEDS! :cool:
 
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