Intel won’t start mass production 10nm until 2019

Intel has major problems with its 10nm production, according to the announcement of the company’s quarterly figures. Production on a large scale will only start in 2019. Intel did record record sales last quarter.

Intel will release 10nm processors this year, but only in small quantities. The high volume shipment has been postponed to 2019, according to the explanation of the quarterly figures. Intel started the release of its 14nm processors in September 2014, although the mass production of 14nm started in 2015. It is unknown what caused the postponement of 10nm production.

In any case, the problems did not stand in the way of a good quarterly result. Intel’s revenue rose 13 percent to $16.1 billion. Revenue of the Client Computing Group, which includes consumer processors, for example, rose 3 percent to $8.2 billion. Revenue growth for notebook chips increased by 4 percent, for desktop by 2 percent. However, the average price of a desktop chip increased by 7 percent and that of a notebook chip by 1 percent: Intel sells fewer desktop processors, but the chips it sells have a higher price.

The Datacenter Group in particular did well, helped by cloud services that purchase Xeon processors for their data centers. The division’s revenue rose 24 percent to $5.2 billion. The divisions for internet-of-things, Non-Volatile Memory Solutions and Programmable Solutions, which include fpga manufacturer Altera, also achieved double-digit revenue growth.

For the next quarter, Intel expects revenue growth of 10 percent compared to last year. For the entire year 2018, the company expects to turn over $2.5 billion more than previously thought, totaling $67.5 billion. However, in terms of revenue from PC chips, the company expects sales to remain flat compared to last year.