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> The author seems to think Intel or AMD cannot make SoCs because of their business model. You gave a good example of AMD, but Intel has been making the Xeon-D
by OldHand2018 6y ago
> The author seems to think Intel or AMD cannot make SoCs because of their business model.
You gave a good example of AMD, but Intel has been making the Xeon-D SoC for a while now. They've always looked interesting to me, but outside of expensive SuperMicro motherboards, I've never seen one available to the general public.
I think you are right though - both AMD and Intel would love it if vendors demanded high-performance SoCs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_D
- toast0 6y agofwiw, I think Intel declared the Xeon-D line dead. They're not planning anything new there. That said, I don't think they would need much to make a Core series processor into a SoC; the chip does almost everything you'd need already; memory, some of the pci-e, (some) usb, (some) sata, legacy IO are already in the CPU for both Intel and AMD, and both offer chips with GPUs on board too. AMD has a 'chipless' chipset available for ryzen, the A300, it even has a new performance version, the X300. There's still plenty of other chips on the board, but there's nothing that's really a chipset.
- OldHand2018 6y agoThat's really disappointing, but entirely unsurprising. It seems that the "market" doesn't ever want anything new, unless someone hits them on the head it. Like what Apple just did. The neural engine and DSP on-chip are actually what I find most interesting about the Apple chip. It would be nice to see that start to happen with other manufacturers.