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??? Battlemage is almost universally liked. The biggest complaints are availablity (and the B570 has been available almost without interruption) and that Intel only targetted the low end (many wanted a B770).

Strong node, strong demand. It probably doesn't hurt that competition is strong between AMD amd Qualcomm and neither wants to fall behind, and Intel is moving to a similar node soon.

I heard somewhere that currently-shipping TSMC nodes are already doing this. It's probably one of the reasons why Intel nodes are behind.

No mention of a haptic touchpad. I'm beginning to think my next laptop will be a Mac because I really don't want to buy a laptop tht doesn't have a haptic touchpad.

TSMC N2 products won't reach the market until 2026, so it's not an option for Panther Lake. Also Nova Lake is probably not desktop-only; it will probably be for mobile as well and just as TSMC N3B makes sense for Arrow Lake on mobile, TSMC N2 could make sense for the compute tile for Nova Lake...

Intel's N5P tiles are graphics tiles in Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake. That is another option N2 could be used for in Nova Lake.

Intel originally promised 18A would be "manufacturing ready" by the end of last year, but it entered "risk production" just recently this year, so it's a little behind. (However, it does appear to be ahead of TSMC's N2 schedule by a good bit.) But when 20A was canceled, Intel claimed it was...

But how do we know that 20A wasn't just behind schedule and was renamed 18A? Someone suggested that possibility once and I said that if Clearwater Forest comes to 18A on schedule then it's the real 18A because Clearwater Forest needs high density libraries that 20A doesn't offer. But now...

No mention of a haptic touchpad. Sad.

That's funny. TPU has a listing on it too. https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/athlon-64-3000.c47

AMD Phoenix came out earlier in the same year as Meteor Lake. AMD said Phoenix was launched and for months I couldn't find Phoenix laptops, just the Asus ROG Ally. In December that year Intel "launched" Meteor Lake and I think two weeks later it was "released" and I found store listings of 4...

TSMC has backside power delivery slated for A16, which according to TSMC and Intel roadmaps will land around the same time as Intel 14A*. TSMC might ramp up faster and produce a greater volume, but if the first Intel 18A products are released this year (as promised) and feature backside power...

Even in recent times, Intel's nodes have remained somewhat competitive with TSMC's nodes in terms of performance. The struggle has been density. But more performance is still good.

I assumed production had stopped. I'm not sure. It's "Temporarily Out of Stock" and "Back-Ordered" on B&H, "Out of Stock" at Newegg, and I can't find it at Amazon. But I also can't find any statement that production had stopped.

It'd be the only GPU in production near the $500 price market. But if it's like the others it's basically a paper launch and very few people will be able to get one. On the bright side, a smaller GPUs means more chips per wafer which means more of the people desperate for literally any GPU will...