Analysts Heap Praise on Intel's 14A Node, But 18A Has Yet to Impress

Analysts appear to be bullish about the potential of Intel's future 14A process node. Describing it as "the real deal," Patrick Moorehead, chief analyst at Moore Insights and Strategy, says that because Intel has laid so much groundwork with its 18A nodes, its 14A one should get off to a flying start.

Intel has had a tough time in recent years. It fell behind AMD in the consumer and enterprise CPU space, its graphics cards have struggled to gain traction, and it can't find customers for its latest 18A node. But it has secured investment and backing from Nvidia and the US government, and it's convinced Apple to use its fabrication facilities to produce future M-series chips. Now, analysts believe its process nodes could be real game changers.

"From everything I've seen—and all the Intel customers I've talked to—I'm very confident that ...