Intel’s 13th-generation Core processors this year will continue to use the Intel 7 process, and the 14th-generation Core Meteor Lake will be upgraded to the Intel 4 process – this is Intel’s 4nm process for its competitors, and it is the first time to use EUV lithography technology. Trial production is already underway in the second half of the year, and the performance-per-watt of its transistors will increase by about 20 percent.
Intel’s 4nm EUV process will not only be used to produce its own x86 processors but will also be used in its IFS foundry department, which is open to other manufacturers. The latest news says that the 4nm EUV process has produced a code name for SiFive. Horse Creek Processor.
Horse Creek is a high-performance processor developed by SiFive, based on the high-performance P550 core. The company is the leading IP licensing company for the global open source processor RISC-V, and its status is equivalent to ARM in mobile chips.
In February of this year, SiFive announced that it had reached a cooperation agreement with Intel to develop Horse Creek platform processors based on the Intel 4 process, and the products are expected to be available in 2022.
