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So, is Intel just too far behind to catch up at this point? It looks like there is a lot of progress by quite a few companies, but Intel is still floundering.
by ijidak 3y ago
So, is Intel just too far behind to catch up at this point?
It looks like there is a lot of progress by quite a few companies, but Intel is still floundering.
- wmf 3y agoIntel is releasing a 288-core CPU pretty soon.
- adrian_b 3y agoThat is right, but the cores used by Intel in Sierra Forest are intermediate in performance between the slower Neoverse N2 cores and the faster Neoverse V2 cores that are used in the latest server CPUs introduced by NVIDIA, Amazon and Google. It is not known for now with how many Neoverse V2 cores will Sierra Forest be equivalent and how the Ampere proprietary cores compare with the Neoverse cores, so it is not known whether the planned 256-core Ampere CPU will be faster or slower than a 288-core Sierra Forest. However, if the Ampere CPU will be ready only much later than Sierra Forest and the faster AMD Zen 5c CPUs (which are likely to also reach 256 cores), its performance might not matter much, as there is too much competition for it.