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Intel has always bet hard on their homegrown fab process and efficiencies winning over competitors. With 10nm, it's years overdue (we're now on 14nm++++, if my
by rincebrain 7y ago
Intel has always bet hard on their homegrown fab process and efficiencies winning over competitors.
With 10nm, it's years overdue (we're now on 14nm++++, if my count is right), and Intel's just been incrementally iterating on Skylake in the meanwhile.
I'm really looking forward to the next generation or two, when we see non-mobile 10nm+ chips from Intel and whether they can make up the lost ground between Spectre variants and AMD's gains.
- deaddodo 7y agoNot even Skylake. Sandy Bridge was the last major improvement to their microarchitectures, and that was in 2011. People blame this on complacency (and there was definitely some of that, as internal reports have revealed) but it also has to do with their inability to execute on their 10nm process and the fact that they've got everything tied to in-house development; while AMD is able to execute a much more mercenary approach (mixing and matching node processes, sourcing to multiple fabs, utilizing open standards vs baking their own, etc).