Intel Takes Another Hit

Intel will cancel 14A and following nodes if it can't win a major external customer — move would cede leading-edge nodes to TSMC and Samsung

This is mostly of interest to those of us aware of just how badly they've gouged their own customers. Nvidia is even worse, but Intel is the modern version of Ma Bell. Even today, with all the competition, they might own 60% of the patents in a laptop. Intel can't find a supercomputer customer for their chips, so they'd rather throw a billion dollars worth of research away, and skip ahead to a smaller node.

Everybody is racing towards molecular scale circuitry, gate-all-around transistors, knowing its probably the cheapest anyone will be able to produce in the near future. These chips can hold 90 billion transistors, or twice as many as your average gaming laptop, and use maybe 15-60 watts. Enough transistors to render realistic water, and the real question is when will most people no longer care anymore?