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This is a 2 month old article; the company has had significant progress since then and the specific price information is no longer as relevant.

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They have claimed progress since then, but their latest and greatest processor that is available still runs on mostly TSMC chips. 18A has zero proof of being ready by the end of the year like they claim.

What do you mean by greatest and latest? Intel 3 is in high volume production, and Intel Xeon 6 chip, their datacenter offering, their bread and butter, are made on that process - [0]

18A is slated for 2025, not end of this year. Check this presentation from 2021 - [1]. Their latest update is that they are still on track - [2]

[0]-https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-3-3nm-class...

[1]- https://download.intel.com/newsroom/2021/client-computing/In...

[2] - https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Intel-Foundry/Process-T...

Yeah, and their "Gaudi" AI accelerator chips that the articles cites as a bright spot is also technology that they bought and didn't develop themselves.

It seems as if Intel, even under Andy Grove, have been somewhat of a one-trick pony. They nailed the "tick tock" process/architecture advance of their CPU products, but have missed almost all the other major market opportunities (mobile, gaming. AI/ML) that have presented themselves, as well as managing to screw up their process lead and fall behind.

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