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A perfect storm. Intel had trouble with its 10nm/7nm engineering processes, which TSMC has been able to achieve. AMD had a resurgence with Zen arch. and ARM/App
by blackoil 6y ago
A perfect storm. Intel had trouble with its 10nm/7nm engineering processes, which TSMC has been able to achieve. AMD had a resurgence with Zen arch. and ARM/Apple/TSMC/Samsung put 100s of billions to catchup with the x86 performance.
Intel is still biggest player in the game, because even though they are stuck at 14nm, AMD isn't able to manufacture enough to take bigger chunks of the market. Apple won't sell it to PC/Datacenter space, rest are still niche.
- ac29 6y ago> even though they are stuck at 14nm I think this isnt quite fair, their laptop 10nm chips have been shipping in volume since last year, and their server chips were released today, with 200k+ units already shipped (according to Anandtech). The only line left on 14nm is socketed Desktop processors, which is a relatively small market compared to laptops and servers.
- colinmhayes 6y agoHacker News users generally aren't very interested in laptop processors. Sure business wise they're incredibly important, but as far as getting flack on hacker news, laptop chips won't stop it. People here have been waiting for intel 10nm on server and especially desktop for 6 years now.
- totalZero 6y agoUnless you have scraped past posts to perform some kind of sentiment analysis, this is pure speculation intended to move the goalposts on GP.