Intel turns off its tick-tock metronome
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Those familiar with the CPU industry should be familiar with Intel's long-running "tick-tock" product development strategy. The chip maker alternated between releasing products based on a smaller transistor process (a tick), followed by chips with a new architecture based on that process node (a tock). That strategy served the company well for many a year, but Intel is now turning off that proverbial metronome. In its latest 10-K filing, the chip giant said the clockwork-like cycle is coming to a close. In the company's own words:
We expect to lengthen the amount of time we will utilize our 14nm and our next generation 10nm ...