Report: Intel Delays 14 nm Broadwell, Schedules Haswell Refresh for 2014

From DailyTech: Intel Corp. (INTC) last year successfully navigated a potentially treacherous die-shrink to the 22 nanometer node with the Ivy Bridge core. This year it followed up with a redesigned architecture, Haswell on the 22 nm node, which incorporates aggressive power savings and better on-die GPUs.

Intel's roadmap has long stated that 2014 would mark the arrival of 14 nm chips with the Broadwell die shrink. But multiple rumor sites are showing leaked Intel slides that indicate that the 14 nm node is proving particularly onerous.

Thus for 2014 Intel won't be offering a die shrink, but a breather "Haswell refresh". In some regards this will likely be similar to NVIDIA Corp.'s (NVDA) GeForce 700 Series, which kept the same core designs and process node (28 nm), but rebranded parts, shuffling higher performance parts to lower price points.

The delay also gives Intel's mobile offerings (which are currently on 32 nm) time to catch up. The 22 nm, quad-core tablet-geared Atoms (core: Silvermont; SoC: ValleyView; chipset: Bay Trail) are scheduled to hit the tablet market later this year, and hit the smartphone market early next year.

All of Intel's 22 nm Atom product line will be under 18 watts (as a platform, not just the CPU) and all of Intel's mainstream Core i-Series product line will be under 95 watts.

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