“Electronic Times,” said that some suppliers said that Intel’s 7nm process, that is, the Intel 4 node, is expected to be ready for mass production in the second half of 2022. At last month’s IEEE VLSI Symposium conference, Intel met with other developers and said they were ready for a “semiconductor production node advance” that will have a major impact on the market.
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Intel said that Intel 4 can run more than 20% faster at the same power or lower, or reduce power consumption by about 40% at the same frequency. Moreover, Intel also said that the Intel 4 node using EUV lithography is the company’s first, with a full two-fold increase in transistor density compared to previous designs with Intel 7 or 10nm ESF technology.
The company’s announcement was somewhat of a surprise due to the long stagnation of the 14nm to 10nm process. The sources also said that Intel’s more advanced intel 3 processes will begin ramping up production in the second half of next year, delivering an additional 18 percent performance boost over the aforementioned intel 4.
Intel’s next-generation Meteor Lake series processors will be based on Intel 4 nodes, which you can understand as 14th-generation Core processors, but actually include some other product lines, such as Granite Rapids enterprise-class CPUs.
Judging from the known information, Intel Meteor Lake plans to be its first mass-production model with a small chip design, a flexible tiled structure, and Foveros 3D packaging technology, which is the same as AMD’s solution. Of course, AMD’s new products will also use TSMC’s N5 and N4 processes.
There are reports that the Raptor Lake series has a different potential than the Meteor Lake series, which will gradually roll out desktop CPUs and high-end mobile CPUs next year to compete with AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 series chips, so stay tuned.
