Intel's 14nm Broadwell Delayed Because of Low Yield

judgecorp writes "Intel has put back the delivery of its 14nm Broadwell desktop chip by a quarter because of a manufacturing issue that leaves it with too high a density of defects. The problem has been fixed, says CEO Brian Krzanich, who says, 'This happens sometimes in development phases.'" The good news is that it is just a defect density issue. A first round of tweaks failed to increase yield, but Intel seems to think a few more improvements to the 14nm process will result in acceptable yield.

Re:640nm ought to be enough for anyone....

[Antipater]

For others like me who had to look this up, link [wikiquote.org].

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Re:Not the real issue

[alvinrod]

The reason that there's less overclocking headroom has little to do with the architecture design and a lot to do with the crappy thermal solution Intel started using on their IB and Haswell chips. Basically they started using some really crappy thermal paste instead of soldering the IHS like they did with Sandy Bridge. People who delid their chips and use better thermal interface material get far better results. Some people can get upwards of an extra GHz in speed when over-clocking and see some fairly substantial temperature drops as well.