Intel Achieves 55% Yield on 18A: Mass Production to begin late 2025
https://en.gamegpu.com/iron/intel-achieves-55-million-GPUs-on-18a--mass-production-to-begin-by-2025
But what products will be made though? Only Nova Lake?
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@OP So..you're telling me there might be a chance?
Yeah!
Def Met to the rescue!
wow, I read this and I'm truly shocked... people here are celebrating 55% yield. What a strange world I live in.
Yield is on track and that apparently is making the TSMC Trolls nervous, which seems insecure to me.
Considering what a major change 18a represents for Intel, the fact that they have kept to the yield roadmap is impressive.
Once it has some internal products then that provides a proof point for potential external customers, but really need at least 18A-P to offer industry standard PDK and design rules.
These things take time and getting here was not handled in a very cost effective or efficient manner. With some of that now corrected, see what the company is still capable of making happen.
Fantastic.
Just don't read anything or talk about competitors status or how selections are pretty clearly done.
In this manner everyone can be surprised as the shift to 14A PR message is rolled out.
Its a sad sad joke.
WHAAaaatttt???
@at: if Intel gets much smaller it will never be industry leading again. You need scale to succeed, scale to bounce back. PG knew this hence IFS 2.0. Now you can be a very successful lagging edge node company with a bottom in the future, just
not a leader.
@b7 with TSMC in AZ that story becomes less likely. It is a sinking ship and sink it will.
It is fake news! Remember fake news start to fly when it get close to quarterly earnings. The pattern comes again.
It is a small web site, not sure if it is fake news.
Intel is very shameful. It used a lot of my development work, without my work, 18A will not go anywhere.
Hurray for some good news.
It is good to see improvements and forward progress being made. Most people at Intel need to temper their views on what a turn around will look like. There isn't going to be some magical event that suddenly thrusts Intel back into the forefront of the semiconductor industry. Frankly, the bottom hasn't been hit yet. Intel will become a much smaller company before it starts to make gains again and the possibility of never recovering is still a real threat. Making modest gains is a good sign that not all hope has been lost.