Intel Confirms Plans to Launch 7nm Chips in 2021

At Intel's annual Investor Day on Wednesday, CEO Bob Swan announced that the company would launch its first 7 nanometer chips in 2021. Elaborating on the timeline, Dr. Murthy Renduchintala, Intel’s chief engineering officer, said that the lead 7nm product is expected to be an Intel Xe architecture-based, general-purpose GPU (GP-GPU) for data center AI and high-performance computing.

The 7nm chips are expected to deliver 2 times scaling and is expected to provide approximately 20 percent increase in performance per watt with a 4 times reduction in design rule complexity.

The company also announced that after many a delay, its first volume 10nm processor, a mobile PC platform code-named “Ice Lake” will begin shipping in June. It is expected to deliver approximately 3 times faster wireless speeds, 2 times faster video transcode speeds, 2 times faster graphics
 Performance a 2.5 to 3 times faster artificial intelligence (AI) performance over previous generation products, said the company.
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