INTEL'S CTO SAYS TOOLS CAN ONLY ROUGHLY DOUBLE LEADING-EDGE CHIP OUTPUT, WHILE AI DEMAND GROWS 3X A YEAR

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Dwarkesh Patel toured Intel's fabs and interviewed its leaders. CTO Pushkar Ranade said that there are enough tools to roughly double leading-edge output, not 10x. Backside power lets Intel's 14A print with a single High-NA pass, where TSMC would still need double-patterned EUV. Other topics discussed included ruthenium wiring below roughly 20nm pitch, CFET aspect-ratio and heat challenges, hybrid bonding pitches shrinking toward 0.45 microns, and the Terafab partnership.