Intel is still keeping to its well known Tick-Tock strategy as the company plans to have 10nm manufacturing process ready for 2016 while 7nm one should arrive in 2018.


According to a slide released by Expreview.com and spotted by Chiphell.com, Intel plans to have the 10nm CPUs ready sometime in 2016 while 7nm CPUs should come in 2018, at least if everything goes according to Intel's current plans. Nine years ago we had first 65nm processors and currently Intel already has 14nm Core M Broadwell-based CPUs ready.

Unfortunately for all us desktop lovers, 14nm desktop CPUs will not be ready before next year but according to the aforementioned slide, things will get quite interesting when we start talking about 10nm manufacturing process sometime next year, and see some of the first CPUs based on it, currently codenamed Cannonlake (a die shrink of Intel's Skylake architecture), most likely in 2016.

AMD is still stuck at 28nm manufacturing process and currently plans to transition to 20nm in 2015. Samsung and Globalfoundries should both have 14nm node ready for 2015. TSMC is currently testing out 16nm FinFET manufacturing process and expect first products based on it sometime next year.

Intel's plans to switch to 10nm in 2015 and 7nm in 2017, might sound a bit too optimistic as the company had already suffered delays with 14nm manufacturing process so hopefully all will be well in future.



Source: Chiphell.com.