Intel dumps off on next year's plans for improved Intel processors.The 2 angstrom and 1.2 angstrom Intel processor family plans are officially and formally dumped now. All the promised special generations of 7nm stuff is either done, or else considered water over the dam
or else are being subsumed in Intel's endless round of BS name changes.
They were BS anyway, as the Intel 10nm (alias 3.0 angstrom) has already run its paces (and did it somewhat poorly) and the 1.2 angstrom never will be as Intel had dumped off all development on it earlier this year in favor of TSMC 3nm (which BTW still hasn't happened in hard reality).
So we are left with another "same same" refresh for this year.
Intel (next year) hopes to make up some bogus claims for Intel cores run off TSMC 3nm next year as everyone else will be running TSMC 3nm ++ when Intel runs their first 3nm gen 1 batches. Intel is choking on their own design's gate all around issues and has failed to ship test lots already promised to their vendor base.
AMD is currently doing preliminary vendor work on some gate all around 2nm Samsung cores as their up and coming smaller cores right now as AMD works through the various gate all around teething issues on the newer lithography levels.
AMD has TSMC 3nm + in production as their current big cores with 3nm++ starting late this year. Intel will be trying to go TSMC 3mn while AMD is moving to 2nm inside that same year.
AMD is doing well using "stacking a layer of memory" on top of their chipsets, as
throughput is greatly increased although the resulting conjoined current draw is going up and the "lidded by memory chip set excess heating and cooling" is becoming more of an issue.
Intel had earlier promulgated a bunch of heavy duty CPU cooling tricks that AMD is starting to use now.
With the recent strong decline in the US Dollar it is all becoming so very very expensive, so much so that us old retired people will likely never see any of it ......==================================
Another market that Intel started that is no longer competitive in --- and Intel has just dumped it off completely due to no sales ....... the NUC.
NUC (Next Unit of Computing) as a class or style has a healthy market in Asia, but nothing competitive is coming from Intel at all now, so it gets the axe from Intel at the end of this month.
Interesting point from ASUS Although Intel is dumping out of the NUC market at the end of this month ASUS feels that the NUC market segment itself is still sound.
https://liliputing.com/asus-will-make-sell-and-support-nuc-systems-after-inte...ASUS feels that new competitive NUC units using new Intel processors will continue to come out in this NUC market segment, not being driven by Intel per se but driven by ASUS and other active competitors using both AMD and ARM and Intel chipsets.
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Intel still sells a lot of finished box computers using older technology. Gamers tend to be state of the art, and are buying more and more AMD lately.
Intel still sells the majority of the tech that is available to be purchased by us common people in finished forms.
So, Intel still supplies 70-75% of the processors that are being sold.