Posted on Monday, October 22 2018 @ 12:21 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
In the previous post we talked about an investment from
Intel in its Leixlip, Ireland facility to boost 14nm production output, and now there's a product change notification on Intel's website that talks about extra Test & Finish production capacity for its Core i5-9600K, Core i7-9700K, and Core i9-9900K processors. The notice was published on October 19, 2018 and reveals customers can expect these chips starting on December 14, 2018.
Intel will be adding an additional qualified site (Vietnam) for the Test & Finish portions of the
manufacturing process.
While Assembly, Test and Finish will continue to be done in PGAT (Malaysia), Intel will also have
assembled material sent to VNAT (Vietnam) to perform the Test/Finish portions of the manufacturing
process. Please note that Vietnam has been certified equivalent (form, fit, function, and reliability) for the
affected products and technologies of this change.
