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The move over the last few years has been towards mobile, and decreasing power consumption. So over the last ten years or so, Intel has responded to this reali
by grabcocque 10y ago
The move over the last few years has been towards mobile, and decreasing power consumption.
So over the last ten years or so, Intel has responded to this realisation by, inter alia, using the extra transistor budget afforded by Moore's Law to move more and more of what was once on the chipset on die.
This is, practically, a much better use of silicon than simply adding more cores.
- CoolGuySteve 10y agoThe package size for mobile chips is also shrinking (and presumably die size as well). For example the Skylake Core M package is half the size of the Broadwell Core M according to Wikipedia (die size is listed as TBD). Aside from the size benefits for board layout, a smaller die would let them get more CPUs from a wafer while a lack of competition in the mobile x86 space lets them charge the same amount for each one.
- pjc50 10y agoIntel has responded to this realisation by .. giving up on mobile, for the time being. (The integrated graphics are getting quite acceptable and we're starting to see PC-on-a-stick and cheap Intel tablets as a result, but I'm not sure how big a market that is)
- gpderetta 10y agoLaptops is usually considered mobile, and there Intel is king. The OP is right that low power has been Intel focus for the last few years which benefits both laptops and servers.
- dr_zoidberg 10y agoActually, the Iris branded GPUs are quite impressive, considering that they are essentially a co-processor inside the chip and they pull over 800 GFLOPs of compute power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HD_and_Iris_Graphics#Skylake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HD_and_Iris_Graphics#Sky...