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H310D: Third Time's Charm

Intel Server Chipset Driver (10.1.18019.8144) adds support for a mysterious and unannounced H310D chipset. The name insinuates that the new chipset is most likely based on the original H310 chipset, which launched last year.
The 14nm manufacturing process has been Intel's bread and butter for several years now. The past year has been pretty tough on Intel as the company struggled with 14nm processor shortages. Intel initially produced the entry-level H310 chipset on the 14nm process, but desperate times call for desperate measures. The chipmaker was eventually forced to backpedal its H310 chipset production to the 22nm process. In a nutshell, that was like the H310C, sometimes branded as H310 R2.0, chipset was born.
Fast-forward to the present day, and Intel is sneaking on a third revision of the H310 chipset. The H310D chipset has a new device ID, but there is no information on whether the H310D will arrive with any significant changes in comparison to the previous two variants. If you recall, the H310C chipset.

Chipset	Lithography	Device ID	Launch Date
*Intel H310D	14nm	A315	2019
Intel H310C	22nm	A2CA	2018
Intel H310	14nm	A303	2018

Back in June, there was a rumor going around the hardware community that Intel was supposedly outsourcing some of its 14nm processor production to Samsung. However, our own sources confirmed that Intel and Samsung were indeed meeting secretly to talk about production but for much simpler designs, such as chipsets for example. It makes a lot of sense since chipsets are relatively easier to produce than processors. Samsung has a pretty mature 14nm process node and the production capacity to undertake Intel's orders without problems.
If we have to take an educated guess, there is a fairly good chance that the H310D chipset will probably come out of the 14nm cooking oven. It's just a matter of whose oven is going to be - Intel or Samsung.

Zhiye Liu