Intel’s process push
INTEL’S CEO, Pat Gelsinger, is an engineer, and when he got the job back in 2021, he had an engineer’s solution to the company’s floundering development schedule. He released a roadmap that promised five nodes in four years. The plan hasn’t gone entirely smoothly: that Raptor Lake refresh wasn’t part of the deal, Intel 4 barely made it on time, and both the 20A and 18A ‘Angstrom era’ nodes seem in the balance.