… This is almost certainly a reference to some light pilot production as opposed to bringing the entire foundry fully online as a high volume manufacturing facility. It typically takes 2-3 years to build a foundry, followed by a 6-12 month manufacturing ramp. …
… Both foundry manufacturers are pushing hard for next-generation nodes, because hitting new nodes quickly means capturing the lion's share of the revenue over that node's lifetime. …
… It may be cheaper to push some chipset manufacturing off to a third party and keep more of its own foundry space crunching on high-margin Xeon parts than to shift existing 14nm over to building chipsets while simultaneously trying to bring 10nm online. …
… Intel's Pat Gelsinger has pushed the US to make a massive investment in chip manufacturing, though that issue is still being debated in Congress. …
… For decades, semiconductor engineers have come to broad agreement about which technologies represented the best and most reliable scaling opportunities for future manufacturing. …
… All manufacturers build in a degree of redundancy, but when manufacturing tolerances are being tightly squeezed, adding redundant circuits also pushes up complexity. …
… Hopefully relaxing its clock speeds will allow the chip giant to actually push the Core i9-10850K into retail at volume, thereby gaining some traction in-market for its new chips in the process. …