Intel will start testing the 7mm this year

Intel has enjoyed for many years a great advantage in the manufacturing process of its processors, such has been the difference that while its chips reached 22 nm or 14 nm, its main rivals had to suffer to drop below 28 nm and even the 32nm as in the case of AMD and its FX. Competition in this field has become much fiercer in recent years and Intel is threatened by its leadership, so it must put its batteries and will start testing the new 7nm this year 2017.

Intel wants to accelerate its development under the threat of its rivals

So tough is the competition that Samsung intends to produce the first 7nm chips in 2018, initially they will be memory chips that are much simpler than the processors but Intel does not like anything that someone gets ahead of them. Samsung is an important partner of AMD so if it manages to overtake Intel in the process of manufacturing processors, those of Sunnyvale could have an advantage over the semiconductor giant, more if the new Zen microarchitecture meets what is expected of it.

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Intel will start testing with the 7nm in 2017 but the first processors with this node are not expected for at least two or three years later, so we would be talking about 2019 or 2020. For 2019, the arrival of the Intel Tigerlake processors is expected, which will be the substitutes for the Cannonlake and the second generation manufactured in the process at 10 nm. Intel wants to accelerate the development of its processors and retake Moore's law.

GlobalFoundries is another major partner of AMD and plans to produce the first 7nm processors in 2018, thus posing another major threat to Intel and its domain. We will see if it is able to finally manufacture the first x86 7nm CPUs successfully before the giant or not.

Source: pcworld