Stefan Mileschin

7nm data center GPU confirmed

Intel has provided a financial analyst community update about its 10nm and, it even mentioned 7nm for 2021, touching beyond that. The first 7nm from Intel seems to be a 7nm general purpose GPU.

Intel’s Murthy Renduchintala provided first updates on Intel’s 7nm process technology expected to deliver two times scaling. Murthy mentioned that Intel plans to provide approximately 20 percent increase in performance per watt with a four times reduction in design rule complexity.

Intel already announced that it plans to launch a 10nm discrete GPU in 2020 and, the year after it looks like it will transition from 10nm to 7nm, at least for the data center part. This would get Intel back to its original two year cadence to transition to a new manufacturing node. So far, TSMC did a good job moving from 14nm to 10nm to current 2nd generation 7nm, and it is expected that TSMC will have 5nm in 2021.
Intel’s 7nm comparable to TSMC’s 5nm

It is imperative to mentation that Intel is using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for its 7nm technology and this is what TSMC is using for its 5nm. Samsung's fabrication facilities use EUV for its upcoming 5nm too expected in 2021 timeframe.

Many processor manufacturing experts we talked to have compared Intel’s 10nm with TSMCs 7nm and that this number is more marketing than anything else. It is to expect that Intel’s 7nm will be comparable with TSMC’s 5nm.

Murthy also mentioned that the 7nm mark Intel’s first commercial use of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, a technology that will help drive scaling for multiple node generations. A process that Intel calls 1276 should be a designation for the 7nm. The 1276 starts in 2021 and already in 2022 Intel mentions 7+, a year after it is a time of 7++.

https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/48659-i...ts-7nm-in-2021