… 2 VIEW GALLERY - 2 IMAGES For the consumer side, leaks have pointed to a chip codenamed "Serpent Lake" as the first joint client product, reportedly tied to Intel's future Titan Lake architecture with an integrated NVIDIA RTX GPU tile. …
… The demand for semiconductors has been skyrocketing since the boom of mainstream AI products. AI data centers have created a supply-demand imbalance, and consumer products are the ones suffering the most. Intel seems to be doing what it needs to do to keep its products profitable. …
… In the interview, David pointed to the AI boom that has shifted supply away from consumer DDR5 and toward HBM for AI data centers. DDR4 production capacity has also been declining over the past year or two as manufacturers shifted investment heavily toward DDR5. …
… And with memory and storage makers prioritizing AI companies and data centers versus consumer-facing products, we could be seeing this play out right now. …
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… One of the biggest stories for the consumer-facing PC market, that is, the non-data center and AI-only space, was Micron announcing that it would no longer produce consumer SSD and RAM products under its long-standing Crucial brand. …
… Elliott says that the price hikes are also a result of production contract renewals; companies make multi-year contract deals to secure chips and components for hardware, pre-ordering these products years in advance. …
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… Intel has not yet revealed which clients will use its upcoming 18A-P production process, but industry sources have reported that Apple is on track to use Intel's 18A-P production node to build its M-series SoCs for MacBooks and iPads. …
