
Brian Krzanich CEO of Intel recently announced that the PC processor running Broadwell will be launched at this year's holiday shopping season, not in the 3rd quarter as previously planned. Broadwell is a 5th generation Core CPU and is responsible for replacing the current architecture Haswell. "I guarantee them for the festive season, and not until the last second." Krzanich added that processes new 14nm semiconductor manufacturing are having problems "yields", a rare thing in Intel, and that has led to the delay of Broadwell. Timing of initiation of Intel CPUs are important for computer manufacturers because they need to use the chip in the new series of PC roadmap product update online.