Only a few short years ago the world was awed and surprised by Intel's silicon technology prowess. Intel was the leader: first to strain, first to HiK, first to finfet, most certainly first to publish about yield and technology at the next node.
Well BK and his minions have been running TMG and Intel and Intel is a laggard and sinking faster and faster.
IEDM was this week, the premier technology conference where companies brag about themselves. Intel has nothing. TSMC showed their 7nm and have yields on SRAM greater 50% and fully functional yielding ARM and GPU cores yields DOUBLE digit! I would say TMG and LTD really has been mismanaged and everyone down from CEO to director should go due to this utter failure. Give them the swords!
TSMC, Global and Samsung all buy the same tools and last I heard from an esteemed fellow was that physics was the same in Taiwan as it is in Hillsboro.
So I ask you are the engineers really dumber and work slower and less in Hillsoboro versus Hsinchu? Or is management and leadership leading the company straight down the toilet?
ACT2 and ACT3 are a coming !
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1330940