AMD’s Ryzen looks even stronger as Intel wrestles with its own processor transitions

In announcing a six-month delay on its transition to 7nm products, Intel is doing its best to keep things moving—tweaking 10nm processors into another ‘+’ iteration, pushing out 10nm desktop CPUs, and announcing delays for its first Xe GPUs for the datacenter, too.

In order to keep products on schedule, Intel may even manufacture them using external foundries—shocking news for industry watchers well-acquainted with Intel’s massive fab investment. Still, the shift could affect those chips’ pricing, and it’s uncertain whether Intel can deliver them on time.

Intel dropped several bombshells on Thursday. First, it acknowledged that a design defect in its 7nm manufacturing process will delay the transition from the current 10nm process to 7nm by six months, or a full year past its original internal expectations. 
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