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Intel's Tick-Tock Isn't Coming Back (theverge.com)

(Friday October 24, 2025 @11:27AM (msmash) from the brave-new-world dept.)


Intel's tick-tock development cadence [1]will not return . CEO Lip-Bu Tan said during the company's Q3 2025 earnings call that the 18A process node will be a "long-lived node" powering at least three generations of client and server products. Intel reported its first profit in nearly two years, aided by financial support from Nvidia, Softbank, and the US government.

The company faces chip shortages that will peak in the first quarter of next year. CFO David Zinsner said Intel is prioritizing AI server chips over consumer processors. Intel will launch only one Panther Lake SKU this year and roll out others in 2026. Zinsner called Panther Lake "pretty expensive" and said Intel will push Lunar Lake chips "in at least the first half of the year."



[1] https://www.theverge.com/tech/805652/intel-q3-2025-earnings-18a-panther-lake-ai-gpus-annual


Snuffy Smith Facing Moonshine Shortages (Score:4, Insightful)

by Pseudonymous Powers ( 4097097 )

"The company faces chip shortages..."

I think I found the problem. See, Intel, you guys are supposed to SELL chips, not buy them.

It was an honest mistake, but it's good we caught it. I will take my consulting fee in cash, check, or credit.

Slashdot Effect Vaporizes Ganymede
-- Submitted by Dave Finton

In one of the more bizarre consequences of the infamous "Slashdot Effect",
Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system, was completely and utterly
destroyed when CmdrTaco posted an article about the Hubble Space
Telescope's latest round of images and discoveries.

"It all started when we put up some more info on our web page about
Jupiter and Ganymede," said one NASA guy whom we believe may be in charge
of something. "CmdrTaco got wind of it, and posted it on his site."

According to observers, the webserver promptly exploded thereafter,
damaging the nearby remote control system used to aim and focus the
Hubble's cameras from the ground.

"All of the sudden our controls went wacky!" said one engineer. "The
Hubble then started shooting these death rays all over the universe. One
of those rays hit Ganymede, and *POOF*. There it went! We were all like,
'COOOOOL! Let's aim it something else!'"