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Jeremy Laird

Everyone assumes it's game over, but Intel's huge bet on 18A is still very much game on

Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, with a 18A SRAM test wafer.

All hail the latest victory for Intel. Their chip production nodes are so fantastic, that it's cancelled one and will instead ask TSMC to make even more Intel CPUs. Yes, really, that was the spin Intel put on its decision to bin the 20A node.

Add that to the 13th and 14th Gen crashing CPU debacle, reports that the company is at risk of falling out of the Dow Jones Index, mounting losses in its foundry business, a share price that's down 60% this year, rumours that the all-important 18A node is coming up short, plus what amounts to a decade's worth of broader underperformance when it comes to developing and commercialising new chip production technologies and, well, it's easy to see why the narrative of late is that Intel is in terminal decline.

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