Last week, we reported on a claimed 18-month deadline for Intel to win customers for its next-next-gen 14A chip node, else the company would have to give up on cutting-edge chip manufacturing. This week, it's Intel's actual next-gen node that's in the news for the wrong reasons, as 18A is apparently in trouble.
Reuters says sources inside Intel put the company's all-important 18A node (well, it used to be all-important before Intel shifted that dubious honour to 14A) at 10% in terms of manufacturing yields. That lowly figure is reportedly up from an even worse yield of just 5% late last year.
