Intel's in no hurry to get 14A all tooled up: 'It does not make sense to build out significant capacity there until we know that we have the customers that will accept that demand'

With the official launch of its new Core Ultra 300-series of processors going very well so far, Intel's latest process node, 18A, appears to be a successful endeavour. We won't know for certain until all the benchmarks come out, of course, but regardless of how good it is, Intel isn't rushing to gear up its next-gen 14A foundries to push out mountains of wafers.

And that's straight from the horse's mouth, David Zinser (Intel's chief financial officer) to be specific. In response to a query...