Intel has denied reports that appeared in the media today claiming that it has cancelled work on its long-delayed 10nm fabrication process. In a tweet posted to its corporate @intelnews account today[1], the company stated: "Media reports published today that Intel is ending work on the 10nm process are untrue. We are making good progress on 10nm. Yields are improving consistent with the timeline we shared during our last earnings report."
The story about the purported cancellation first appeared at SemiAccurate[2], which cited unnamed “moles” within Intel[3] as its sources. The article describes Intel's alleged move as “the first adult decision” that the company has made after repeatedly pushing back the launch of 10nm Cannonlake[4] CPUs due to insufficient yields. SemiAccurate did not report any information about the Cannonlake product line specifically, just the manufacturing process, leaving open the possibility that Intel could have alternative 10nm process plans and product roadmaps in place.
Media reports published today that Intel is ending work on the 10nm process are untrue. We are making good progress on 10nm. Yields are improving consistent with the timeline we shared during our last earnings report.
— Intel News (@intelnews) October 22, 2018[5]
Intel has repeatedly pushed back[6] the rollout of 10nm chips based on ‘Cannonlake', its first architecture manufactured using the 10nm process, which was originally scheduled for release in late 2016. The company first announced in mid-2015 that its long-running ‘Tick-Tock[7]' model of refreshing architectures and shrinking manufacturing processes every alternate year would be extended[8]. It then introduced Kaby Lake[9], an intermediary ‘14nm+' architecture, to fill the gap which was...