Intel says it will lag behind AMD's process technology until late 2021

Intel's CFO says that its process technology won't pass AMDs until it produces its 5nm node.



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Intel's CFO says that Intel's process tech will lag behind AMD's until the end of 2021.
He states that Intel's process technology will reach parity with AMD's when Intel makes the 7nm node.
He adds that Intel feels it won't regain leadership until the 5nm node comes out in the future.


Intel's CFO, George Davis, shared at the Morgan Stanley conference that Intel process technology likely won't catch up to AMD's until the end of 2021 (via Tom's Hardware). Davis states that Intel's process technology should reach parity with AMD's when Intel produces the 7nm node at the end of 2021. Davis believes that Intel will regain process leadership when it builds the 5nm node at some point in the future.

Davis summarized how Intel feels it will catch up to AMD at the conference:


So we bring a lot of capability to the table for our customers, in addition to the CPU, and we f...