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by sliken 1632 days ago
Quite a bit faster than building a fab for a leading process and making a new product on that fab.

Alder lake seems plenty competitive (even market leading) for today, AMD has nothing big (like zen4) due anytime soon. Moving the next gen to some other fab in time to replace alder lake looks quite feasible.
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anamax 1632 days ago
Yes, Intel can do new designs for other fabs.

The question is when it makes sense to port old designs to other fabs.

FWIW, I'm not convinced that it takes less time to bring up a new design on a new fab than it takes to bring up an old design on a new fab. (The exception being a new fab that is identical to the old fab.)

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