Intel has not yet made the jump to 10nm, something that will happen with its Alder Lake-S architecture, but they are already seriously thinking about what the move to 7nm will mean. The roadmap announced by Intel tells us that the jump to 7nm will occur in the year 2033 with the debut of the Meteor Lake architecture.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger himself has made the advance announcement of the jump to the 7nm process node, which will arrive in 2023 with the Meteor Lake architecture. This means that Intel is going to use 7nm nodes about 6 years after AMD used them with the first generation Ryzen in 2017.
Intel has confirmed that the design of the Meteor Lake architecture will be finalized in the second quarter of this year, and then for a long process of two years for fine-tuning, testing and the passage to the manufacture of the different iterations until the retail version.
Using an older compute node has not prevented Intel from staying competitive against AMD processors, but it has been a significant limitation, especially in the core count, where AMD has a decisive advantage.
We are moving rapidly through 7nm process maturity, with a simplified process and increased EUV. The compute tile for Meteor Lake, a breakthrough 2023 client processor, will tape in next quarter. https://t.co/lY5fO1aYAJ pic.twitter.com/WzkJL0gPRw
— Intel News (@intelnews) March 23, 2021
7nm processors will arrive for both desktop and laptop PCs in 2023 using big hybrid technology. LITTLE that combines large and small cores, a design that is here to stay.
Before Meteor Lake, Intel has plans to launch the Raptor Lake processors at 10nm, which will be the successors of Alder Lake. For now, Intel will launch the 11th generation Rocket Lake-S processors on March 30, which will be the last to be manufactured with a 14 nm node.
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