Intel’s CFO admits that it has fallen behind rival TSMC by at least two years

Intel Chief Financial Officer, George Davis acknowledged to investors at the Morgan Stanley conference recently that Intel is currently behind its main competitor, TSMC, and it will take at least two years to catch up.

TSMC has already mass-produced 7nm products and has started to develop 5nm processes. The impact on Intel is that they have to adjust the output of their 10nm products according to the mass production level of their opponents.

Intel has previously stated that the output of its products based on the 10nm process will not be as high as the current products based on the 14nm process, but it also set up a special plan to regain its leading position in the 5nm era.

George Davis said:

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.

Intel’s goal is to solve performance defects through platform-level improvements (such as artificial intelligence and software and hardware performance issues after integration). Intel currently hopes to catch up with TSMC by the end of 2021. Intel had previously expected to develop a 3nm process by the end of 2020.

Via: mspoweruser