[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-intel-says-14a-chips-will-land-within-5-of-tsmcs-a14":10,"sections":46},{"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":35,"tags":36,"sources":41,"feedback":45,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":45,"total_tokens":45},7775,"intel-says-14a-chips-will-land-within-5-of-tsmcs-a14","Intel Says 14A Chips Will Land Within 5% of TSMC's A14","Intel's own roadmap math suggests a bigger lead over TSMC's A14, but its foundry chief is telling investors to expect only a 5% difference.","Intel says its next chip-making process will land \"within 5%\" of TSMC's competing node - which reads like either a promise or a warning, depending on which way that 5% goes.\n\nNaga Chandrasekaran, chief technology and operations officer of Intel Foundry, told analysts at KeyBanc that the company's upcoming 14A process is expected to perform \"within 5%\" of TSMC's A14, according to a report citing the note. Both processes target the 1.4-nanometer class and are still years from shipping. Here's the catch: Intel's own public roadmap claims 14A will deliver 15-20% higher performance than its current 18A node at the same power, while TSMC pegs A14's gain over its N2 node at 10-15%. Run Intel's own numbers and 14A should be comfortably ahead of A14, not neck-and-neck.\n\nThat gap between what Intel's roadmap implies and what its foundry chief is now telling investors is the real story. Foundries sell confidence to customers picking a manufacturing partner for the next decade of chips, so a leader hedging its own numbers is unusual - worth reading as either candor or cover for a process that's tracking behind its targets.\n\nIntel has missed process promises before, and CEO Lip-Bu Tan has made a habit of setting expectations low. \"Within 5%\" might just be Intel doing that again, one node early.","[\"intel\",\"tsmc\",\"semiconductors\",\"chip-manufacturing\"]","2026-09-25T12:00:00.000Z","2026-09-25T21:42:39.004Z","2026-09-25T21:42:45.229Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The claimed 'roughly 2% to 16%' range attributed specifically to the Core Ultra X9 388H\u002FEPYC 9586F comparison is wrong — the source's own table shows that pairing implies 2.00%–11.30%, while the 16.2% figure comes from a separate scenario using Apple's M6 as the N2 reference chip, so correct the range (or attribute it to the right chip pairing) before publishing.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":32,"round":33,"reason":34,"status":29},"publisher-r2","publisher",2,"The 'real shipping chips' comparison cites products that don't check out—TSMC's N2 process and AMD's cited EPYC 9586F aren't currently shipping, and the Intel 'Core Ultra X9 388H' model name doesn't match Intel's actual naming scheme, undermining the article's central math.","hardware",[37,38,39,40],"intel","tsmc","semiconductors","chip-manufacturing",[42],{"name":43,"url":44},"Tom's Hardware","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tomshardware.com\u002Ftech-industry\u002Fsemiconductors\u002Fintel-expects-14a-to-be-within-5-percent-the-performance-of-tsmcs-a14-conservative-forecast-clashes-with-18as-frequency-lead-and-promised-20-percent-gains",0,{"sections":47},[48,53,58,63,68,72,77,82,87,92,97,102,107,112],{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"AI","ai",4494,"2026-09-25T15:40:03.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"Security","security",734,"2026-09-25T15:52:13.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":62},"Policy","policy",389,"2026-09-25T15:27:35.000Z",{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":66,"latest_published_at":67},"Deals","deals",253,"2026-09-25T15:26:22.000Z",{"name":69,"slug":35,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Hardware",185,"2026-09-25T15:00:22.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Science","science",139,"2026-09-25T11:55:23.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",132,"2026-09-25T15:30:00.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Software","software",88,"2026-09-24T23:06:55.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",81,"2026-09-25T09:59:40.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"Startups","startups",74,"2026-09-25T14:05:04.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"Gaming","gaming",47,"2026-09-25T13:33:16.000Z",{"name":103,"slug":104,"count":105,"latest_published_at":106},"General","general",46,"2026-09-25T02:12:57.000Z",{"name":108,"slug":109,"count":110,"latest_published_at":111},"Reviews","reviews",30,"2026-09-24T20:07:31.000Z",{"name":113,"slug":114,"count":115,"latest_published_at":116},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]