Intel was once the shining star in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, with a perfectly integrated, vertical product design and manufacturing scheme. Intel was one of the few companies in the world to be able to both develop its architectures and gear their manufacturing facilities to their design characteristics, ensuring a perfect marriage of design and manufacturing. However, not all is rosy on that field, as we've seen; AMD itself also was a fully integrated company, but decided to spin-off its manufacturing arm so as to survive - thus creating GLOBALFOUNDRIES.But Intel was seen as many as the leader in semiconductor manufacturing, always at the cutting edge of - well - Moore's Law, named after Intel's founding father Gordon Moore. Now, Mehdi Hosseini, an analyst with Susquehanna, has gone on to say that the blue giant has effectively lost its semiconductor leadership. And it has, in a way, even if its 10 nm (which is in development hell, so to speak) is technically more advanced than some 7 nm implementations waiting to be delivered to market by its competitors. However, there's one area where Intel will stop being able to claim leadership: manufacturing techniques involving EUV (Extreme UltraViolet).It's being reported that intel has decided to postpone its EUV efforts to other processes, not taking it up on its 7 nm process development. This saves Intel money in adding yet another technique and technology to an already hard to manufacture node, but leaves the door ajar for the likes of TSMC and Samsung (of which the latter is expected to have the more complex EUV implementation, in more layers, at least in the beginning). TSMC is looking to develop both 7 nm and 7 nm+ manufacturing processes, where only the latter will feature EUV integration - a way to divide costs and reduce reliance on a still exotic technology. But while Samsung and TSMC are both looking towards some level of EUV integration by 2019, intel is looking towards a farther 2021.According to Susquehanna's Mehdi Hosseini, TSMC is the company to look out for as the semiconductor manufacturer leader, as it "appears to be winning most of the leading-edge design wins due to better 7nm process technology performance, lower power consumption and better area density." Indeed "the times, they are a changin'."