[Xbit] Broadwell delayed.

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Actually I find one of the best sources on Intel's roadmaps to be you. Like here - http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=35281144&postcount=51

You sure seemed to believe mobile Broadwell was H1 2014 a week ago. Then again, so did Intel.

Good find. Indeed it's now delayed to H2 2014.

 

[Arachnotronic]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...roadwell_Processors_for_Notebooks_Slides.html

This is extremely unlikely to be a planned delay, as the article suggests they will miss the "back to school" period which is something they'd never do intentionally.

What makes this even more of a surprise is that very recently during their Q2 conference call, Intel said that 14nm was "still on track" - http://seekingalpha.com/article/134...-2013-results-earnings-call-transcript?page=3



Curious, but I'm sure they wouldn't lie about it at a conference call so something must have happened in the week between then and now.

Maybe it's an old roadmap? Look, here's what was said on the CC,

We should get some good news associated with startup cost, and then the offset in Q4 is going to be, we should be well into the build of Broadwell.

Further, the CEO had this to say,

As far as our 14 nanometer Core launch in our – just our general product launch, I think what we’ve said so far is, first half of 2014 and we’re not going to – we’re not ready to give any specifics beyond that.

 

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So they launch 22NM new Atom in late 2013 or early 2014 and replace it almost immediately??

Not replace, supplement.

Intel launching 22nm IB did not replace 32nm SB-E. It supplemented the existing portfolio offerings.

Remember Intel has two entirely different tiers of Atom products. They can iterate one without undermining what they are doing on the other.

For example Intel can easily advance the lower-cost Atom SKUs to a newer node, obsoleting the older lower-cost SKUs, while still keeping its high-performance SKUs on the more mature node (same as they do with XEON now).

 

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they can always fuse off features on the die of newer one to force you to buy the older ones for "features" that you want. Though i would assume the newer ones would be for microservers, the older ones for consumers until intel ramps up production and shifts more of it to consumers