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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
I love how people uneducated on the matter love to make up theories.

They have their own fabs to produce CPUs, those fabs hit a wall with 14nm, and barely progressed for years, while TSMC early adopted EUV and passed them. The 10nm successor to 14nm was 'launched' but effectively cancelled as it had so many problems, a new very different 10nmeventually popped back up with Tiger Lake.

Since they hit a wall with their fabs, that meant they couldnt increase core counts or core size without increasing prices significantly each generation. Yes they were stuck on 4-6 core mainstream CPUs, but the prices were the same once you adjusted for inflation.
gpt
And why did 14nm never progressed for that long? Because the damn management ignored engineer reports and keep pushing for unnecessary features because "time" was on their side, and why rush when there was no competition. Also how come the 8th  and 9th gen double the core counts in a snap and still make profits for intel?