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I'm surprised they _still_ don't have a working 10nm desktop chip. They're 5 years behind schedule (and still counting) at this point! This is just a reskinned
by henriquez 7y ago
I'm surprised they _still_ don't have a working 10nm desktop chip. They're 5 years behind schedule (and still counting) at this point! This is just a reskinned 9900k with 2 more cores and a much higher (> 25%) TDP at 125-watts, which is a generously low estimate of how much power it will actually suck. I briefly had their "140 watt" 7820x chip (returned for refund) that would gladly suck down more than 200 watts under sustained load. Intel plays such games with their single core turbo at this point that the 5.3ghz means very little, and it's the same tired architecture they've been rehashing since Sandy Bridge (2011).
This is an incredibly poor showing and if I were an investor I would be seriously questioning the future of Intel as a company.
- superpermutat0r 7y agoI believe Jim Keller is currently at Intel, maybe they'll have some surprises soon.
- oAlbe 7y agoI've always been puzzled by this whole Jim Keller situation. Is one man literally the only reason we have technological advancements in microprocessors?
- MengerSponge 7y agoFive tops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi
- blihp 7y agoObviously not the only reason, but he appears to be a helpful ingredient in the mix with good things tending to happen with him around. No idea how much of it is due to his technical vs. management skill, but there definitely seems to be some there there.
- patrec 7y agoIn that light AMD losing him to Intel via Tesla sounds like a potential few billion dollar blunder. I wonder how difficult/expensive it would have been to prevent that.
- jessermeyer 7y agoJim has a long history of jumping between companies.
- patrec 7y agoAll the more reason to try hard to avoid him ending up at your main competitor if you finally start getting a leg up.
- adventured 7y agoYou probably can't. He appears to like jumping into challenges such as those that AMD was facing and Intel is facing now. The jumping would seem to imply he's doing it to pursue an interesting challenge as the primary. Some personalities need that (others are obviously repelled by that risk & challenge). Lots of big corporations can afford to pay very large sums to retain him, if that were his primary consideration.
- hanniabu 7y agoAsk HN: I'm somebody with this type of personality that likes challenges and to bounce around, but I'm not as talented and experiences as someone like Jim. What are some suggestions on how I can satisfy this while also avoiding the trap of not being somewhere long enough to gain a higher level of experience? It seems that my habits have sabotaged me and my peers have excelled in their companies to much higher positions and compensation.
- jessermeyer 6y ago
- agumonkey 7y agoWherever he is the wind blows. That's all we can say.
- freepor 7y agoHe is roughly equivalent to Lebron James in basketball. The team that he is on "mysteriously" seems to win, and win big, while he's there.
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- syshum 7y agoIntel's problems are not soley tech related, though their missteps here have not helped the situation Intel does not know how to compete from a marketing, sales, and business standpoint, for a few decades they only really competed with their own product line, now that they have actual competition in the market they are unable to react to it properly even if they had the tech stack to do so
- chx 7y ago> I'm surprised they _still_ don't have a working 10nm desktop chip. If the rumors are true there _never_ will be a 10nm desktop chip, the process is broken. It seems 7nm will be "it", late next year.
- mobilio 7y agoToo late!