Intel tweaks its 18A process with variants tailored to mass-market chips, big AI brains

Intel has revealed a pair of variants of its long-awaited 18A process node to make it better suited for, one, manufacturing mass-market processors and, two, complex multi-die semiconductors for – of course – AI. First teased in mid-2021, the 2nm-ish 18A is set to finally enter volume production later this year with the launch …

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

Good old Intel. Constantly going on about upcoming technology and then expecting you to pay premium prices for the crap that is shipping now.

Why would I care about future nodes and processes that have nothing to do with what is actually available and not just another "someday" forecast?

It isn't like Intel has even been able to deliver on their behind-TSMC technology on time for over a decade!