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Intel has been moving to a server chip first strategy. I’m not sure this was a good idea.
by gpapilion 6y ago
Intel has been moving to a server chip first strategy. I’m not sure this was a good idea.
- karmakaze 6y agoI don't know if what Intel has been doing are so much strategies as whatever can be done to hold market share. They could claim single-thread performance or smaller process nodes having lost throughput or power efficiency. Then added the rarely beneficial AVX512 as a differentiator.
- OldHand2018 6y agoIf it was a strategy, it's not necessarily such a crazy one. They would have known earlier than most that Apple was moving to ARM. Microsoft and others (Samsung at least) have been selling lower-end consumer computers with ARM chips - and they don't look like they're going to abandon this market any time soon. As long as Apple's transition isn't a complete disaster, the "good enough" volume sales computer gets closer and closer to being ARM every year, leaving x86 on the desktop a smaller and smaller niche. Or not. I am not even remotely close to being an expert!