We really haven’t understood fully the innovation that this is going to spark. What is the latest with it?ĭermot: Meteor Lake is an incredible piece of technology when it comes to unlocking AI on a PC. cores and Crestmont Efficient Cores IntelĪntony: Intel has an exciting year ahead with Meteor Lake being all over the news recently. Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs will feature Intel 4 technology including new Redwood Cove Performance. Those two themes are what our customers are looking to use to help them with Factors such as sustainability – everyone is looking to address this – and AI and how it will impact businesses and society. Were still trying to figure out what the post-pandemic world looks like but there are a few things that you rarely have conversations without these days. With regards to Covid, it accelerated some of the digital transformations we saw going on pre-pandemic, but it also impinged on some other people’s plans. We’re obviously concerned about our colleagues in Israel where we have a large presence and several Fabs and we’re working closely with them. Intel's Fab 34 cleanroom in Ireland IntelĪntony: Is Intel facing any particular challenges at this time? We’ve obviously gone through Brexit here in the UK and the cost of living crisis, Covid and increasing costs due to the war in Ukraine having an impact on many areas and also the current situation in Israel.ĭermot: I think there’s been more disruption across the board than any of us could have predicted four or five years ago regarding trade, supply lines, geopolitical disruption for all those reasons. While we don’t have a Fab there, we’re engaging in other areas such as the UK Atomic Energy Authority and Cambridge University in researching fusion energy or supporting startups through the Intel Ignite program, particularly in areas such as software and AI, plus investing in the future by working out what the next generation of skills will be and working with partners such as Imperial College London and Lenovo to close those digital skills gaps. It creates more sustainable manufacturing with the shortening of the supply chain for our customers.Īntony: What is the latest for Intel both in the UK and in Europe too?ĭermot: Intel has had a presence in the UK for over 40 years, we currently have over 600 employees and our European head office is in Swindon with various other sites there too. Our plants in Germany and Poland are just a couple of hours apart and Ireland is also part of the European continent. There’s also the sustainability point of view too. What we’re saying to our customers is that we’ll continue to invest not just in terms of the high-end technology perspective but from the supply chain resilience perspective too. There are existing older technologies that currently do the same but this is the first of its kind at scale with a cutting edge technology. You now have a high-end, leading-edge, end-to-end manufacturing with the actual wafers staying within the continent. Fab 34 in Ireland coupled with the mega Fab in Germany and particularly when we think about the backend process in Poland considering assembly, testing and packaging there. Our customers in Europe and across the world value supply chain resilience and we don’t want to return to the imbalances we’ve seen in the past. Again, from the perspective of Moore’s Law, each node is going to bring better performance and better power efficiency, with Intel 3 being the follow-on process, which will also be manufactured in Ireland.Īntony: What benefits will this bring to Europe’s supply chain of semiconductors?ĭermot: It’s another step in what’s required to rebalance that supply chain. Antony: Does Fab 34 differ in any way to Intel’s older plants in the US or Israel both in terms of the technology used and what is manufactured?ĭermot: Intel 4 is a key milestone from our perspective as we regain leadership across the spectrum and meet our CEO’s goal of five new nodes in four years.
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