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How can Intel, which announced its return to the foundry field, catch up with TSMC and Samsung? Throwing out the latest “road plan”, Intel predicts that it will meet a structural breakthrough in 2024, and also disclosed the first batch of major customers: Qualcomm, Amazon.
In order to increase product recognition, Intel set out to modify the current product naming and released a new roadmap with 4 new categories. The first is to take over the current 10nm SuperFin technology “Intel 7”, which will have 10-15% performance per watt. Upgrade, related products will debut this year as soon as possible, including Alder Lake’s CPU and next year’s mass-produced server chips.
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Followed by Intel 4, Intel 3, the new development is to start using EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) lithography technology, the former will first increase the performance per watt by 20%, and is expected to start shipping in 2023, and the latter will only start in the same year Production can increase the performance by 18% per watt, and Intel 3 will use EUV more widely than Intel 4.
The biggest shock this time is the final Intel 20A! It will officially enter the “angstrom” era, which is smaller than nanometers. It will adopt a brand-new “RibbonFET” transistor architecture to replace the FinFET that has been used for many years. It is a gate all around (GAA) transistor that can be used in small Multiple fins are stacked in the area to provide faster switching speed of the transistor. In addition, there is a technology called “PowerVia” that allows the chip to be powered from the back.
Intel also announced that the first major customer of Intel 20A will be “Qualcomm.” It is expected to be mass-produced in 2024. Does it mean that Intel will begin to manufacture Android mobile phone chips in the future? Or is it only responsible for Qualcomm’s computer CPU? The two parties have not disclosed the details of the cooperation. At the same time, Intel 20A has received orders from Amazon at the same time, but it is limited to packaging technology. In addition, Intel 18A is also under development and will come out in early 2025.
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