Intel will release its first 10nm processors at the end of 2019
In the fourth quarter of next year, the first PCs with Intel processors made on a 10nm process will be released. That is what Intel says in announcing its quarterly figures. Previously, the company only announced that mass production had been delayed until 2019.
While discussing the quarterly results, Murthy Renduchintala, a chief executive at Intel, indicated that data center products will follow soon after the release of personal computers with 10nm processors in late 2019. The company will continue to make processors at 14nm in the coming year.
Despite the fact that the arrival of 10nm processors is still pending, Intel has had a successful quarter. Revenue came in at $17 billion, 15 percent more than the same quarter last year. Earnings were $5 billion, 78 percent more than last year.
The business units focused on data centers and similar products grew revenue by 26 percent, making that part of Intel now accounting for nearly half of total revenue. The largest source of revenue was the Data Center Group, which brought in $5.5 billion and grew by 27 percent. PC sales grew 6 percent to $8.7 billion.
Intel has been making processors based on its 14nm process since 2014. In recent years, the manufacturer has continued to improve that process, but Intel is experiencing problems with the step to 10nm. The switch to the smaller process has therefore been postponed. Whiskey Lake will probably be released later this year, the fifth generation of processors based on the 14nm process.
AMD announced Thursday that the company is on track to introduce hardware at 7nm. The company plans to release another Vega GPU for servers and workstations at 7nm this year, and next year AMD will release its second generation of Epyc server processors, which are also made at 7nm.
When AMD comes with consumer processors at 7nm is not yet known, but that will be after the Epyc processors come out. The 7nm process that AMD uses is comparable to the 10nm process of Intel.