At this week's 2022 Intel Investor Meeting the company laid out its vision for the future, detailing the roadmap for all of its business divisions and its plans to capitalize on the unprecedented demand for semiconductors. …
… Now Read : South Korea Commits $450 Billion to Dominate Semiconductor Market Taiwan Dismisses EU Effort to Build Leading Edge Semiconductor Capacity TSMC Will Spend an Extra $10B on Chip Production in 2021
… If EUV and 450mm wafers don't happen at 10nm, the "what happens next?" roadmap is a grab-bag of unresolved difficulties and potentially terrible economics. …
… The Slow Pace of Semiconductors There's a quote attributed to Robert Palmer, former CEO of Digital, that summarizes semiconductor design cycles very well: Building semiconductors is like playing Russian roulette. …
… How defect densities wreck cost curves As semiconductor nodes shrink, the difficulty of building ever-smaller transistor layouts becomes increasingly acute. …
… It's too early to say, but Intel's roadmap says it will be at 10nm by 2015 -- two full process nodes ahead of TSMC, GloFo, and Samsung. …