Intel: The first Intel 18A/20A chips are already in testing

Intel recently released its third quarter financial report for fiscal 2022. The latest financial report shows that Intel's revenue in the third quarter plummeted 20%. Intel warned of more declines in the fourth quarter and lowered its full-year 2022 guidance. Intel said it plans to cut costs by $3 billion in 2023 and as much as $10 billion by 2025.

Will the reduction of indicators and cost reduction affect the development of Intel's next-generation products and advanced processes? On the latest earnings conference call, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger shared next-generation chip production and process development.

Pat Kirsinger said that the client's Meteor Lake will be "Tape Out" in the fourth quarter of 2022, the Intel 4 process is moving towards mass production in an orderly manner, and the Intel 3 process continues as planned , in good condition.

The Intel 3/4 process is Intel's first process node to deploy EUV, with significant improvements in performance per watt and transistor density. Meteor Lake uses a modular design. In addition to using Intel's own Intel 4 process, it will also utilize GPU modules manufactured by TSMC's N3 or N5 process.

In terms of data centers, although Sapphire Rapids has been postponed to next year, Emerald Rapids, its optimized version, is still planned to be released in 2023, and the two belong to the same platform. The next Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest are also expected to launch in 2024, with early versions of Granite Rapids already running and running on various configurations and operating systems, while Sierra Forest is an all E-Core product that will provide World-class performance per watt.

The more advanced Intel 18A/20A is progressing well, and these new process nodes will benefit from two breakthrough technologies, RibbonFET and PowerVia. The first in-house chips are already being tested in the lab, and there is a potential external customer whose next generation has been taped out on the Intel 18A process. With the Intel 18A/20A process, Intel hopes to regain its leadership in semiconductor processes by 2025.