… 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. …