Intel has lost the lead to rivals but Davis is confident that until will be able to catch up when it rolls out 7nm, which is slated for late 2021. Furthermore, Davis assured investors that Intel projects that will be able to regain the lead in the semiconductor process market with its future 5nm process.
"As we said back at our analyst day in May of 19: Look, this isn't just going to be the best node that Intel has ever had. It's going to be less productive than 14nm, less productive than 22nm, but we're excited about the improvements that we're seeing and we expect to start the 7nm period with a much better profile of performance over that starting at the end of 2021."Further details at Tom's Hardware.
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Intel plans to roll out the 7nm process in late 2021, and the company hasn't released an official projection for the launch of its 5nm node. TSMC is moving along briskly with its new processes and should be on the 3nm node in late 2022, so it's unclear if Intel's projection to regain leadership with its 5nm node are based on TSMC's current schedule for 3nm.