It appears that chipmaker Intel is finally ready to bid farewell to its usual 'tick-tock' product cycle. Experts say this will be a major microarchitectural change. Intel will introduce a new three-step process that will incorporate Process, Architecture and Optimization (PAO).

With the new three-step process, Intel will be stretching the timeline of its manufacturing process and add a third leg called Optimization into the cycle. The first example of this new cycle will be featured into the upcoming Intel Kaby Lake processors which follow the Broadwell and Skylake processors manufactured using the 14nm process, according to PC World.

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With the tick-tock method, Intel is upgrading its manufacturing technology in order to shrink circuits in the tick years. During the tock years, it employs the same circuit size and manufacturing technique but changes that microcode which usually make the chips faster and less power hungry.

In a statement acquired by Engadget, Intel said, "We expect to lengthen the amount of time we will utilize our 14nm and our next generation 10nm process technologies, further optimizing our products and process technologies while meeting the yearly market cadence for product introductions."

Competitors like Samsung are slowly closing in with Intel in the manufacturing process. Intel has promised that it will be the first to introduce processors manufactured using the 10nm process by 2017.

Intel also hinted that the process of manufacturing processors is becoming difficult as the years go by and in the end few companies will be able to keep up. However, TSMC, one of Intel's biggest competitors, has promised to produce chips manufactured using the 5nm process by 2020.

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