Intel and Apple beat AMD to 3nm?

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News reporting that both Intel and Apple have both put in massive 3nm wafer orders to be filled in the 2nd half of 2022. No mention of AMD so I assume they will be on 5nm

 

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Intel conceding their fabs are crap?

Apple no date given but probably before Intel, apple always get first dibs on the whole process.
Intel Mass production beginning end of 2022 at the earliest, so 2023, unless delayed, everything Intel does is delayed these days.

AMD's leaked roadmap for 3nm Zen 5 is 2023.

https://www.techspot.com/news/89855-amd-3nm-based-zen-5-processors-appear-leaked.html

Intels's new architectures are modular to the max, every component can be manufactured by a different Fab on a different process node - they just use whomever has the best node at the time of production for the individual components. It's worth noting that it's entire CPU will not be 3nm, that's not how their architecture works - only certain components on the cpu will be

 

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They are not going to be using their own 10nm for the main cores are they?

Won't know until they announce a new product, all we have is their CEO saying they'll use whichever process node provides the best outcome for them - so I assume if that means tsmc 3nm then so be it - however I also know that in 2022 TSMC's 3nm will still be an immature node that won't have yields for big cores and so I assume only small chips can be made on it at that time and so if I had to guess I'd think Intel is using them to make small cores only or even low tdp mobile parts like a 15w cpu