Ashraf Eassa from The Motley Fool was at Intel’s annual Investor Day in California yesterday, and he Tweeted a couple of interesting things…
Ashraf Eassa from The Motley Fool was at Intel’s annual Investor Day in California yesterday, and he Tweeted a couple of interesting things. In the most surprising bit of news, Eassa confirmed that the next generation of Intel Core processors will once again be built on 14-nm technology. In a reply to Anandtech’s Ian Cutress , he also reported that Intel’s Vice President and General Manager of Client and IoT says that « process tech use will be fluid based on segment and what makes sense. »
Intel slide from Ashraf Eassa
Those two bits of news don’t seem to mesh all that well on their own, but Diane Bryant (Intel’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of its Data Center division) displayed a slide with the statement « data center first for next process node » during the same presentation.
That move could imply that rather than letting its Xeons lag an architectural generation during production on the same process as consumer parts, Intel could mean to fab Xeons on a higher-density process first to achieve higher performance and, in turn, higher selling prices and margins from customers thanks to those chips’ favored status in its foundry roadmap.
