Scan the QR code with wechat < / P > < p > and share it with friends and circles of friends < / P > < p > < / P > < p > in the summer of 2020, chip giant Intel seems to be ready for a big victory. However, trouble followed. "In short, Intel screwed everything up," explains Glenn O'Donnell, research director of Forrester Research, a market research firm Intel was forced to announce to the world that its more advanced chip manufacturing process needs to be delayed for a few more years. In fact, this means that Intel has admitted to falling behind its competitors again < p > after years of misplaced bets, manufacturing delays and leadership changes, the previously undisputed king of chip manufacturing found himself facing competition that he had never faced in decades, and found himself at the bottom of the company. In 2020, intel was forced to admit that it would significantly delay the launch of its recently renamed Intel 4 7Nm node. This prompted a large number of senior executives to leave and acknowledged that Intel may have to face unimaginable things, outsourcing its manufacturing business < p > Intel managed to survive the hellish challenge last summer at the cost of being forced to rethink its business from top to bottom. Now, the company has appointed a new CEO, formulated a new plan, and ushered in a market eager for more chips. Intel set ambitious goals, demonstrated its most detailed process flow roadmap, and boldly promised that if it could avoid the familiar traps of the past decade, it would regain its leadership in the processor industry by 2025. The next few years will be a redemption moment to determine the success or failure of life and death. Either Intel has chosen the right route, or it will fall into an irreparable situation < p > O'Donnell said: "this is not a sudden thing. Many adverse factors accumulated over time until they led to the collapse of the whole thing. " Intel has been going downhill for many years, but it was last summer and the delay in the launch of 7 nm technology that made the crack in the front of the chip giant look more like a cliff and valley < p > O'Donnell added: "throughout Intel's history, until recently, manufacturing business has always been one of Intel's most magical magic weapons. One of Intel's secret weapons is manufacturing innovation, which is why it is so embarrassing to postpone the 7Nm process. This is a huge psychological blow to the whole company and even the whole market, because it means that Intel no longer has a secret weapon. " < p > Intel is still producing its own chips today, which has become quite rare in the industry. Most technology companies do not have their own chip manufacturing plants, which means that they outsource chip manufacturing to other companies, even if they design their own chips. AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, apple, MediaTek and Broadcom are all typical examples of today's factory free companies < p > Intel is one of the few computer chip companies still designing and manufacturing hardware by itself. It can design each part of the manufacturing process according to its own specifications and purposes, and has unparalleled control over the actual manufacturing of products. Intel actually has its own factory and is the only large company still producing chips in the United States. For decades, manufacturing has always been one of Intel's biggest advantages. But the fact is that the company failed to achieve the expectation of 7 nm process, which had just recovered from the 10 nm delay, which was also a huge blow < p > good start and ready to get back on track < / P > < p > in the technology industry, when we talk about semiconductor process flow (such as 10 nm, 7 nm or 5 nm), we are mainly discussing marketing terms. Today's chips don't actually have transistors the size of 10 nanometers or 7 nanometers. Instead, these nodes are used as approximate generational terms to when major advances in surface light manufacturing technology will come < p > the main content provided by each node is greater transistor density, that is, the number of transistors that can be accommodated in a space. The smaller the node, the more transistors you can install, although the exact numbers of different manufacturers often vary greatly. For example, Intel's 10 nm node technology and transistor density are roughly equivalent to TSMC's and Samsung's 7 nm chips, which has prompted Intel's recent brand renewal < p > Intel had a good start last year. The company announced its tiger Lake chip (strictly speaking, the company's third generation 10 nm chip design), and also witnessed the debut of the company's long brewing Xe GPU architecture, which ushered in an exciting new wave of processors and strong capabilities in the field (graphics) that has long been regarded as one of Intel's weaknesses. These chips provide good performance, although they are limited to low-power laptops. The wait for 10 nm and Intel's new graphics card proved to be worth it: the new chips surpassed AMD in single core performance at the time of release, and they actually lived up to the hype < p > more needs to be done: Intel has only released 10 nm chips for its weakest laptop products. If you buy a thin computer, it will be better than ever, because the new architecture node brings all the performance and energy efficiency improvements. But it took the company nearly a year to release more powerful H-series tiger Lake chips for more powerful laptops designed for games and video editing. Moreover, Intel has not iterated the desktop chip to the 10 nm process, which will have a potential adverse impact on this year's chip, because this year's chip attempts to integrate the 10 nm design into the 14 nm architecture, and the results are mixed < p > the resignation of design tycoon triggered a chain reaction < / P > < p > after years of manufacturing delay, Intel seems to be getting back on track. But after entering June 2020, Intel's trouble is back. Jim Keller, an experienced engineer, announced that he would leave for "personal reasons". Keller is a big man in the chip design industry. He helped Apple develop a series chips, amd develop Zen architecture and Tesla develop autopilot computer chips. Intel invited Keller to the board of directors in 2018. Although the company did not disclose his responsibilities other than leading Intel's system on chip (SOC) development and integration team, his work was very clear: as the leader of Intel's tens of thousands of semiconductor engineering team, he wanted Intel to get back to normal ?
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