Despite poor i7 sales, Fab closings, layoffs, and other financial issues Intel is still right on target to release a 32nm CPU this year.

In a recent conference call that EE-Times was in on, Mark Bohr, director of Intel's technology and manufacturing group said that Intel was expecting great demand for the new 32nm process and was lining up Fabs to handle it.

Intel will be presenting 15 papers at the International Solid State Circuits Conference next week and is looking to launch 32nm products in Q4 of this year.

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