Intel has run into a bit of a setback on the development of their new “Broadwell” chip design, pushing the production date of the chips a quarter further away from their originally planned time frame of Q4 2013.
Current chips in development had density defects that were affecting the processor’s performance, and the usual fixes for this kind of issue did not lead to the levels of performance Intel was hoping for.
While new fixes have now been made that do address the Broadwell’s problems, the time it has taken has lead to the current delay, which all things considered isn’t that far back from most people’s initial estimates of the processors wide release, looking to now be around Q3 of 2014.
The Broadwell is a smaller version of the current Haswell design, sizing in at a micro architecture of 14 nm, which is the smallest ever produced. It’s worth noting that while these issues have slightly delayed the release of Broadwell, Intel claims that this has had zero influence over the development of “Skylake”, the current project name for Haswell’s proper successor.
Source: Tech Spot
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