News Intel Displays Arrow Lake Wafer With 20A Process Node, Chips Arrive in 2024

[Admin]

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger displayed a wafer filled with Arrow Lake test dies based on the 20A process node here at Intel Innovation 2023, saying the chips remain on-track for launch in 2024. If Intel stays on track with its 20A node, it will beat TSMC to two critical new chipmaking technologies. Gelsinger also said that Intel’s plan of delivering five nodes in four years remains on track, with the Intel 4 node ready for manufacturing and the Intel 3 node on-schedule for the end of the year.

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[AgentBirdnest]

Woah... Intel was so boring just a few years ago.
This is the most interesting stuff I've seen happen with CPUs since... probably my whole life.
I love it. : ) The innovation and progress Intel has made just over the last couple of years, while Pat has been in charge, is astounding.

 

[A Stoner]

Competition heated up and Intel was forced to play some of the cards hidden up their sleeves. But they are lying about the size step downs, and while I know the measurements are not really indicative of the size of the features, they basically simply renamed a larger generation to a smaller generation without any factual changes. Their 20A is probably what they earlier were considering their 4nm process 3 years ago.

 

[AgentBirdnest]

Competition heated up and Intel was forced to play some of the cards hidden up their sleeves. But they are lying about the size step downs, and while I know the measurements are not really indicative of the size of the features, they basically simply renamed a larger generation to a smaller generation without any factual changes. Their 20A is probably what they earlier were considering their 4nm process 3 years ago.

But the old names were way more dense than their competition's equivalent.
Intel's 10nm node was twice as dense as TSMC's 10nm (100 million transistors/mm², versus about 50 million/mm², respectively.) It was about as dense as TSMC's 7nm, so they changed the name to Intel 7, to be aligned with the competition.