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I may simply have been considering a longer period of history than you. I was counting Itanium and later Pentium 4 among Intel's major failures in microarchitec
by wtallis 3y ago
I may simply have been considering a longer period of history than you. I was counting Itanium and later Pentium 4 among Intel's major failures in microarchitecture design, and consider early Opteron to be AMD's most significant and sustained time in the lead prior to their Zen renaissance.
Intel being stuck on 14nm for so long was basically a single sustained fab failure, but their inability to make any significant improvements to the Skylake CPU core or deliver an improved iGPU during those years also illustrates some severe problems on the chip design side of the company: they're too trusting of what their fab teams promise, and their chip designs are too closely tied to a particular fab process preventing them from porting their designs to a working process when things go wrong with their fab plans.
- jorvi 3y agoAs Gelsinger himself said in an interview > So all of a sudden, as Warren Buffet says, “You don’t know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.” When the tide went out with the process technology, and hey, we were swimming naked, our designs were not competitive. So all of a sudden we realized, “Huh, the rising tide ain’t saving us. We don’t have leadership architecture anymore.” And you saw the exposure.