18A in awkward limbo

Troubled Chipzilla is set to source the compute tiles for its next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPUS from TSMC’s shiny new 2nm process, confirming what’s been murmured for months: its 18a node is not the chosen one yet.

It can’t come soon enough

Intel’s coming Nova Lake has been spotted in the wild in a shipping manifest seen by X86 is dead&back.