From PC World: Intel's first-quarter earnings call on Thursday revealed a new name for its roadmap: Whiskey Lake, which will debut as a consequence of a delay in 10nm volume manufacturing until 2019. Intel did say, though, that it's shipping low volumes of its 10nm Cannon Lake processor now.
Intel reported outstanding first-quarter profits of $4.5 billion, a 50 percent boost over the same quarter a year ago, as well as record revenues of $16.1 billion for the first quarter of 2018. "Coming off a record 2017, Q1 is off to a strong start," Brian Krzanich, the company's chief executive told analysts in a Thursday conference call.
Intel’s revenues were buoyed yet again by its Data Center Group, which reported a 23 percent boost in revenue to $5.2 billion. Intel’s Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, which produces flash memory and Optane, grew by 20% to $1.0 billion. Intel’s PC-centric Client Computing Group is still its largest, at $8.2 billion in revenue, but that business grew just 3 percent, evidence of a PC market that has begun to stabilize over the last 12 to 18 months.
Intel's CCG, though, has had difficulties ramping the yields of its next-generation 10nm Core chips, Intel executives confirmed. Though that rate is improving, Intel made the decision to push out its 10nm PC microprocessor products, in volume, until sometime in 2019, rather than the second half of 2018, as it has said previously. Intel will continue to make “process optimizations and architectural innovations” in its existing 14-nm lines for both datacenter and client products throughout the remainder of 2018, it said.
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