Intel: 10nm production to ramp up in second half of 2018

Intel's 10nm node has faced numerous delays and some skeptics claim the process is broken beyond repair. In its official communicaiton, the chip giant remains positive and promises mass production of 10nm chips is just around the corner.

During the firm's fourth quarter earnings call, Intel CFO Bob Swan revealed that 10nm mass production is slated for the second half of this year:

The third area is we're going from 10-nanometer startup where costs are coming down to more the ramp to the 10-nanometer and that ramp is going to weigh on the margins, as we begin to develop production going into the second half of the year where we're way up the curve where our yields and costs are. So, those are kind of the three things as we see it. If I were to characterize roughly plus one, roughly minus two, roughly minus one, rounding those.