Fallout over 10nm Delays hits Intel preparing to split its manufacturing group into three parts

The continual and endless delays of Intel's 10-nm processors have disappointed their customers like Apple and consumers in general. AMD was frustrated by the inability of its provider Globalfoundries to give them the advantage over Intel at a time when they were stumbling. They abandoned their supplier and decided to work with TSMC. In January 2019, AMD will announce to CES its revolutionary 7nm chips for servers and desktop computers that are ahead of Intel. Desktop enthusiasts are very excited about this news and Intel may lose consumers, tired of the inability of the latter to provide products.

Frustration grew and The Oregonian announced that Intel had decided to split its manufacturing group into three parts: 1) technology development; 2) manufacturing and operations; and 3) supply chain.

According to the report, "Intel will divide its manufacturing unit into three parts," the company told employees Monday. The crisis comes in the context of a crisis in the manufacture of Intel, which has fallen behind in the delivery of next-generation technology, the Intel 10-nanometer chip states that chips, originally planned for 2015, will only be mass produced towards the end of next year.

The delay reflects the difficulty of reducing the size of features on computer chips as these features approach the atomic level. Intel had introduced a new class of processors in a reliable two-year cycle, generating a quantum leap in computing power. But its schedule has been cut short in the face of the growing complexity of the manufacturing process. "You can read the whole story here If you want to know more about Intel delays, check out this report here.

In May Clearly, Apple released a report titled "Apple has set up a hardware engineering laboratory in Oregon and hired several senior Intel engineers". The news supported Bloomberg's April report that Apple would end Intel-based Macs for their own processors.

Just as Intel news made headlines yesterday, analyst Apple Ming-Chi Kuo, who works for TF International Securities, took the opportunity to think that Apple would work with TSMC to provide a custom ARM processor that would power a day the future Macs.