For many years, when #microprocessor giant #Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) would introduce a brand-new manufacturing technology, it would use that technology to build chips for mass-market personal computers such as thin-and-light laptops.In contrast, the company's high-performance data-center processors would get the newer technologies much later.
To put that in perspective, Intel began shipping the first personal-computer chips manufactured using its 22-nanometer technology in late 2011, but it didn't introduce the first data-center chips built using that very same technology until late 2013 -- a two-year gap.
The same goes for the company's 14-nanometer technology: Intel shipped the first personal-computer chips built on 14-nanometer in the second half of 2014, but it didn't start shipping the first data center-oriented chips built on 14-nanometer until the first half of 2016 -- once again, a roughly two-year gap.
Intel Data Center Group (DCG) chief Diane Bryant says this practice will change going forward.
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