The Broadwell PC processor launch is to be delayed by a quarter-- at the Q3 2013 Intel earnings call CEO Brian Krzanich admits a "defect density issue" has impacted yields of the 14nm chips.
The company was already putting fixes on defective chips, but said fixes did not, well, fix every defect. This demanded a further round of improvements and a "small blip in the schedule."
"We have confidence the problem is fixed because we have data it is fixed," Krzanich says. "This happens sometimes in development phases like this. That's why we moved it a quarter."
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