Subj : Re: Intel: Once mighty, now falling?
To   : Nightfox
From : StormTrooper
Date : Wed May 07 2025 23:16:33

 Ni> I worked at Intel from 2011 to the end of 2019, and while I was there, I
 Ni> started to hear about Intel's chip manufacturing struggling and falling
 Ni> behind around 2018-2019 or so.  TSMC's chip manufacturing process had
 Ni> surpassed Intel's, allowing AMD and other chip makers to make smaller
 Ni> transistors for their chips, and Intel struggled with that.  Although
 Ni> Intel has tended to manufacture its own chips, I've heard Intel has now
 Ni> outsourced some of their chips to TSMC to make use of their process
 Ni> technology.

Yeah, I don't tend to remember the time frame but Intel being unable to fab the designs its been trying to roll out has been a thing for a while. After a while you'd have to think its going to impact R&D while you wait for production time on someone elses plant to make test versions of your new designs. Their performance generally hasn't been up to par for a while either, but I haven't tracked anything recently...

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