At today's investor conference, Intel unveiled a series of future product and technology roadmaps, involving Core, Xeon, process and packaging, etc., the most attractive of which is of course the CPU process, before 2025 Intel will launch at least Intel 7, Intel 4, Intel 3, 20A and 18A these five generations of advanced technology.
As we all know, Intel has a big move after the new CEO Kissinger took office last year, that is, the CPU process name that has been insisted on for decades has been completely changed, no longer called 10nm, 7nm, 5nm, the previous 10nm Enhanced SuperFin process will be changed to Intel 7, the original 7nm process will be renamed Intel 4, and then the Intel 3 process, which is an improved version of Intel 4.
The new process name is also 20A, 18A, these two generations will begin to abandon The FinFET transistor technology and switch to GAA transistors, but Intel's official name is RibbonFET, and there is another core technology PowerVia, which is the basis of 20A and 18A.
The question is, what is the friendly business process corresponding to Intel's future generations of technology? At this investor conference, Intel executives also made a comparison on the route chart, as follows:
Starting from Intel 4, it corresponds to TSMC's 7nm process, Intel 3 process corresponds to 6nm process, 20A process is the benchmark TSMC 5nm process, as for the 18A process, Intel has no marking, did not find a suitable opponent.
TSMC will have 4nm, 3nm and 2nm after 5nm, but 3nm and before it are still FinFET transistor processes, 2nm processes on THE GAA, the technical generation gap will be narrowed.
In short, from the perspective of Intel's process benchmarking, the 18A process put into production in the second half of 2024 is very special, which will allow Intel to regain its advantage in the competition, which is very confident.
Of course, Intel is also developing a new process after 18A, which has also been officially confirmed, but the specific name has not been announced, and the possible name should be 14A? After all, this number is the authentic iterative process of the 20A process.
