Intel has always stated the second-to-last node on its "five nodes in four years" strategy was called Intel 20A. It would mark the company's transition away from FinFET and into the Angstrom era of gate-all-around (GAA) RibbonFET transistors with backside power delivery,

Intel announced today that it no longer plans to use its own 20A process node with its upcoming Arrow Lake processors. Instead, it will use external nodes for all of the compute tiles, and then package the chips together.

Intel has done a fair bit of talking recently over successes from its 18A process node, which rather brings up the question, "why bother with 20A at all, if 18A is already yielding well?" Apparently someone at Intel had the same thought,

The Core Ultra 200 exclusively uses compute chips from TSMC. Intel does not want to bring the 20A production technology into series production.

In yet another setback to Intel, the struggling chipmaker will now use rival TSMC to manufacture its Arrow Lake processors.

The silicon for the forthcoming Intel Core Ultra 200 desktop CPUs will be made by third parties, as Intel focuses on its 18A process.

Intel announced today that it no longer plans to use its own 20A process node with its upcoming Arrow Lake processors. Instead, it will use external nodes for all of the compute tiles, and then package the chips together.

Intel is ending its 20A manufacturing process, which was supposed to partly build its upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs for desktops.

The latest benchmark results are for the second-tier CPU, which Intel is calling the Core Ultra 7 265K as opposed to the Core i7-15700K. The new tests show the chip offers quite strong performance in single-core and multi-core workloads,

Meanwhile, Broadcom reportedly displeased with 18A wafers Surprising news about Intel continues to emerge with the chipmaker vowing to use an external foundry in place of its own 20A process to make the upcoming Arrow Lake processors,

Intel has been floundering for a while now, but it has shown signs of resurgence with its Lunar Lake launch which the company says can go toe-to-toe with Arm. While Lunar Lake's production was outsourced to external fabricators,