Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027 - also plans for fully AI-automated factories with 'Cobots'

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1nm chips to arrive in late 2027.

www.tomshardware.com/, Feb. 28, 2024 – 

We've already covered the first major announcements from the Intel Foundry Direct Connect event, but it turns out that Intel miscommunicated about a presentation that was thought to be under NDA – now Intel says the presentation is open to be reported to the public, so we have some more news to share: Intel's previously-unannounced Intel 10A (analogous to 1nm) will enter production/development in late 2027, marking the arrival of the company's first 1nm node, and its 14A (1.4nm) node will enter production in 2026. [Edit: to be clear, this means 10A is beginning development, not entering high volume manufacturing, in 2027] The company is also working to create fully autonomous AI-powered fabs in the future.

Intel's Keyvan Esfarjani, the company's EVP and GM and Foundry Manufacturing and Supply, held a very insightful session that covered the company's latest developments and showed how the roadmap unfolds over the coming years.

Here, we can see two charts, with the first outlining the company's K-WSPW (thousands of wafer starts per week) capacity for Intel's various process nodes. Notably, capacity typically indicates how many wafers can be started, but not the total output – output varies based on yields. You'll notice there isn't a label for the Y-axis, which would give us a direct read on Intel's production volumes. However, this does give us a solid idea of the proportionality of Intel's planned node production over the next several years.

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