[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-every-major-us-chipmaker-is-reportedly-testing-intels-14a":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},7636,"every-major-us-chipmaker-is-reportedly-testing-intels-14a","Every Major US Chipmaker Is Reportedly Testing Intel's 14A","Piper Sandler says Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and others are evaluating Intel's 14A process, with a formal anchor customer still pending.","Nearly every major US chip company is reportedly kicking the tires on Intel's next fab process.\n\nInvestment bank Piper Sandler says Amazon, Apple, AMD, Google, Tesla, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm are all evaluating Intel's upcoming 14A manufacturing node, according to a note cited by WCCFTech. The firm points to three drivers: 14A's technical results are beating expectations, chipmakers want an alternative to TSMC (which is sold out through 2028), and political pressure is pushing chip production back onshore. Intel still needs to land a real anchor customer, something CEO Lip Bu Tan has said is required before the company keeps funding 14A and future nodes. Piper Sandler reads Intel's $20 billion share offering in August 2026 as a signal of confidence that anchor customers are coming, since that cash should help cover the roughly $10 billion tooling bill for a single 14A fab.\n\nEvaluation isn't commitment. Intel announced its shift into contract chip manufacturing back in March 2021 and still hasn't named a headline customer five years later. If even one of these companies signs on, it would validate Intel's bet that 14A can compete with TSMC's next-generation nodes by 2028, when early risk production is slated to begin, with Apple as the trophy win.\n\nNode names like \"14A\" and \"2 nm\" are marketing shorthand more than physics anyway, so the real test isn't the number - it's whether a contract with an actual signature ever shows up.","[\"intel\",\"semiconductors\",\"chip-manufacturing\",\"tsmc\"]","2026-09-24T15:24:48.000Z","2026-09-24T16:09:40.881Z","2026-09-24T16:09:47.565Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Convert the relative time reference 'last month's $20 billion share offering' to an absolute date\u002Fmonth (e.g., August 2026) per house style.","resolved","hardware",[32,33,34,35],"intel","semiconductors","chip-manufacturing","tsmc",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"PCGamer","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.pcgamer.com\u002Fhardware\u002Fprocessors\u002Fapple-nvidia-google-microsoft-pretty-much-all-the-big-us-players-in-the-chip-business-are-reportedly-evaluating-intels-new-14a-node\u002F",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,53,58,63,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101,106],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",4432,"2026-09-24T16:32:42.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Security","security",724,"2026-09-24T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"Policy","policy",384,"2026-09-24T15:44:28.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":62},"Deals","deals",232,"2026-09-24T14:00:29.000Z",{"name":64,"slug":30,"count":65,"latest_published_at":18},"Hardware",178,{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Science","science",137,"2026-09-24T16:38:26.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",124,"2026-09-24T16:29:31.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Software","software",85,"2026-09-23T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",79,"2026-09-22T22:21:13.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Startups","startups",67,"2026-09-24T14:31:00.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Gaming","gaming",45,"2026-09-22T15:35:06.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"General","general",43,"2026-09-21T23:48:56.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"Reviews","reviews",29,"2026-09-24T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":107,"slug":108,"count":109,"latest_published_at":110},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]