We are thrilled that in an increasingly competitive market, you keep choosing Intel. Thank you. Intel has been considering itself to be the "PC market" for 20 years now, and now Intel is stating their belief that the market says they are "preferred" over all other sources and Intel now feels that they are free to drop in old 22nm chipsets and use that 10 year old old technology to bridge the production gap that Intel has itself created by not being able to follow the industry down to 10nm production and below.
Intel aggravates this 14nm production shortage by crowding more and more and more cores into their current chipsets (taking up larger and larger chip areas) which cuts down significantly on the number of finished chipsets you can get per wafer.
So, failure on top of failure is not "failure" for Intel. The Intel stockholders are thrilled if Intel makes money and pays dividends. Intel stock prices thus remain high.Until the previous sentence changes, Intel's current bean picker boss has no motivation to do anything.
By cranking up their old 22nm production lines to make some previous (2 generations back) small processors and by laying out a plan to spend a billion dollars to convert some old now out of country 22nm production lines over to 14nm Intel has functionally kicked their can on down the road a bit.
In Intel's eyes, the crisis has been averted and is over for now ...... (customer orders for new style chips can now be filled at first with old 22nm part numbers out of warehouse stock by just a little wipe with a solvent rag to get the ID numbers off the 10 year old inventory)
In reality, Intel is mentally stuck firmly in the past and isn't moving anywhere. Competitors are using AMD Ryzen tech and Via tech and ARM laptop SoC tech to make lower cost competitive chips in China and elsewhere that are just now starting to sell internationally.
...... jest kicking back and laughing at all them stupid user mullets in the Intel Boardroom jacuzzi ..... 
Intel is a big 'ol old fat set of frog buddies, contentedly sitting in a pan of water that is slowly getting hotter and hotter .......
We are thrilled that in an increasingly competitive market, you keep choosing Intel. Thank you.Financial writers taking a hard look at market growth numbers take exception to Intel's claims of large market growth vs this claim of
We are thrilled that in an increasingly competitive market, you keep choosing Intel. Thank you. First, the consumer PC market has shrunk 30% in the last five years and has only rebounded 2.5% just recently. The Rackspace Market has grown fairly steadily over the entire period, but very very slowly. Intel had enough 14nm manufacturing capacity prior to the last 0.5 % of this rebound period because their competition (AMD) was supplying a little more than half of the total industry's net growth amount.
What Intel has been successful at is their "core multiplication = progress" Jedi mind trick and although this mind trick loses effectiveness past 6-8 cores we find both Intel and AMD are beating those tired lathered horses on down the racetrack anyway. Core counts are up to 12, 18, 24 and 32 cores now and enthusiast game boy consumers are actually buying the size equivalent of a HUGE rack space chipset from 3 years back (and Intel is calling this sad situation a market "preference" for Intel chipsets?)
How fast can Intel increase their real manufacturing capacity, turning 22nm lines into 14nm lines? Not all that fast, unfortunately. A whole lot of the smaller Intel 14nm chipsets will move back to 22nm production processes in the mean time.
Make no mistake, Intel is picking the items they can best afford to lose (and they will lose them, ASAP).
AMD's Ryzen 2nd Generation is out now and 7nm++ production runs from TSMC are flowing as we speak, and the first finished production units from this AMD process stream clearly outperform most all of the older generations of 14nm Intel chipsets.
All Ryzen chipsets clearly outperform the old 22nm Intel chipsets, with the only remaining Intel advantage has is coming from the Intel written gaming drivers that give a total intentional advantage to Intel motherboards and greatly (intentionally) disadvantaging the AMD Ryzen based motherboards.
Rackspace (Linux) uses of AMD shine though, because Linux and Linux drivers are optimized for each system, and both Intel and AMD boards are near equivalents in all Linux functions and tests, with AMD showing itself much better in Linux than it does in Windows.
So, Intel has some real competition now and that competition is making Intel get better somewhat faster than it did in years past. So why has Intel simply stopped advancing technologically at this point of the game ?? Intel still cannot currently make even a small 10nm two core chipset (the video segment doesn't work at all and production yields on the half of the chip Intel says they will keep are so poor Intel still won't tell anyone (including the people who ordered the chips) what the current yield rates actually are.
Can Intel jump out of the 14nm-22nm pot
before they boil to death is the question now, really.
....... humph, is that fat old complacent frog still able to jump high enough to clear the edge of the pot ???
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