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The most salient issue with Intel in the past 10 year was their constant delay of the 10nm node process. While TMSC was constantly pushing down the Node size, I
by nemothekid 1y ago
The most salient issue with Intel in the past 10 year was their constant delay of the 10nm node process. While TMSC was constantly pushing down the Node size, Intel struggled and ceded a lot of ground to AMD & Apple. At the same time Intel struggled to develop a competitive 5G radio, and GPU.
These are all downstream of R&D. If your fab cannot shrink it's node size, then you won't get the most profitable orders.
- chatmasta 1y agoI’m not sure it would have made a difference if they hit 10nm faster. Apple has always wanted to make its own chips. Some marginal efficiencies wouldn’t dissuade them from investing in themselves. And it’s not like Intel was going to start a consumer PC business…
- SlowTao 1y agoYep, Apple buying PA Semi was an indicator of their intention all those years back. I suspect intel was just hoping they would fail at their ambitions.
- SlowTao 1y agoHey... that Arc GPU is the one silver lining to what intel is doing recently. Is it perfect, far from it but it ain't bad.
- vel0city 1y agoIt's both an example of them finally doing something right and a showcase of their failures. Who manufactures the chip in the end? Not Intel.