It's still arguably too early to confidently state how successful Intel's 18A process technology (1.8nm-class) will be. But in about a year, we should know if Pat Gelsinger's five nodes in four years plan was a success. That said, Intel's failure to offer a competitive AI processor is evident even today, which gives Morris Chang, the founder of TSMC, reason to claim that Intel should have focused on the development of AI processors rather than on making chips using leading-edge nodes. The TSMC icon also said that Intel had neither a strategy nor a new CEO, and that finding both will be difficult.
"I do not know why Pat resigned," said Chang at a press conference dedicated to the publication of his biography, Reuters reports. "I do not know if his strategy was bad or if he did not execute it well." [...] "Compared with AI, he seemed to focus more on becoming a foundry. Of course, now it seems that (Gelsinger) should have focused on AI."
