A new report claims that Intel is pushing its client PC customers to buy its latest CPUs built on 18A silicon. It's said the older Intel 7 node is increasingly being reserved for more profitable server chips and even Intel CPUs made in TSMC's fabs will be in short supply.
Nikkei Asia says Intel's move is in response to "surging" demand for server CPUs thanks to good old AI. Consequently, "Intel is asking its leading PC partners, including those in the US, China and Taiwan, to increase their use of central processing units built with the company's 18A production process," the report says.
As Nikkei Asia notes, the older Intel 7 process node is still used in a wide range of CPUs for PCs and servers. On the desktop, that includes 13th Gen Alder Lake and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs, like, say, ...
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