http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/05/05/intel-corporation-its-time-to-replace-ceo-brian-kr.aspx?source=yahoo-2 only after privately communicating these cancellations to industry and financial analysts did Intel publicly confirm them to journalists.
Moore's Law leadership lost
In 2013, Krzanich told investors that its 10-nanometer chip manufacturing technology would be ready for mass production by the end of 2015. Not only would Intel move to more advanced technologies more quickly than the competition, but Intel's technology was expected to be far superior to "comparable" manufacturing technologies from the competition.
The reality of the situation has turned out to be much grimmer.
Intel's 14-nanometer technology was delayed from the end of 2013 into the first half of 2014, and even in late 2015 management was talking about its plans to improve manufacturing yields on this technology.
According to Semiconductor Engineering's sources, Intel is planning to "move into 10nm production by mid-2017." This jibes with Intel's claim that its first 10-nanometer products will arrive in the second half of 2017.
This is a delay of a year-and-half, nearly the time that it should take between two chip manufacturing technology generations.
This delay has allowed Intel's competition to narrow the gap between themselves and the chip giant. It is not clear at this point whether Intel will even have a so-called "manufacturing lead" by the second half of 2018.