{"id":34196,"date":"2020-06-29T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2625280"},"modified":"2020-06-29T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:05:00","slug":"arm-macs-and-amd-rising-how-intels-endless-10nm-struggles-cost-it-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/29\/arm-macs-and-amd-rising-how-intels-endless-10nm-struggles-cost-it-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Arm Macs and AMD rising: How Intel\u2019s endless 10nm struggles cost it so much"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Intel’s endless 10nm nightmare has cost it so, so much.<\/p>\n

It all started on September 5, 2014. That’s the day Intel introduced 5th-gen Core M chips based on “Broadwell,”<\/a> the company’s first processors built using the 14-nanometer manufacturing process. Despite some manufacturing woes that pushed Broadwell back<\/a> from its expected 2013 release, Intel’s offering served as the vanguard of processor technology. AMD remained stuck on the 28nm process with its abysmal Bulldozer architecture. A mere month later, the Apple iPad Air 2 launched with a custom A8X chip that couldn’t quite hang with Intel’s older Haswell CPUs in Geekbench—but it was getting close<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nearly six years later, the tables have turned. Intel’s 10th-gen Core processors remain on an (upgraded) 14nm process. AMD’s Ryzen chips have snatched the computing crown<\/a>, and Apple’s doing the unthinkable: switching Macs away from x86 CPUs onto its own custom Arm silicon. And if Apple’s flight from Nvidia GPUs after “Bumpgate”<\/a> in 2009 is any indication, it won’t be coming back.<\/p>\n

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