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Intel's stalled mostly at the fabrication side. Since Apple is fabless, this isn't really a good comparison.
by zucker42 5y ago
Intel's stalled mostly at the fabrication side. Since Apple is fabless, this isn't really a good comparison.
- kmonsen 5y agoI don't think this is a story, but someone still has to fab them and they can stall
- SilverRed 5y agoThe difference is that if Apple gets stalled, the whole world does since Apple uses whoever is best at the time.
- soperj 5y agoWhat if the best is intel?
- georgeburdell 5y agoThank you. I roll my eyes when someone uncritically states that fabless companies don't get stuck on process. TSMC was basically in Intel's shoes pre-finFET, so its customers were SOL.
- sudosysgen 5y agoWell, no. Intel stalled at the design side. Even with superior processes to AMD they weren't competitive, and their CPU designs had only small changes for a decade.
- samtheprogram 5y agoWeren’t they stalled for nearly a decade on the manufacturing process node (14nm from 2014 on), so design was really the only way they’ve been able to produce any improvements? I’ve tried keeping up to date on this and that has seemed to be the case.
- sudosysgen 5y agoYes, and they didn't improve at all. AMD outperformed Intel on an even weaker process, TSMC 14nm.