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This reads like a native advertising for Intel. Intel must be worried that there is something about the new OpenPOWER movement (such as Google and Nvidia starti
by higherpurpose 11y ago
This reads like a native advertising for Intel. Intel must be worried that there is something about the new OpenPOWER movement (such as Google and Nvidia starting to design their own OpenPOWER CPUs) that threatens them, which is why they are pushing this whole "Intel vs OpenPOWER" narrative now through "exclusive" articles with certain websites.
In case some people don't get it yet, the way these exclusive indepth pieces work is not that Anandtech goes to Intel and says "we would like to do an article about your chips and IBMs'". It's more like Intel going to Anandtech and saying "we have some great material to give you - would you like to write an article around it?"
And that's how Intel's side of the story gets pushed into the market.
- teddyh 11y agoAlso known as a “submarine” article: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- m_mueller 11y agoThat's not quite how I read it. Anandtech raises valid concerns about the power consumption of power8, but other than that they are quite supportive and show power8 beating these xeons in benchmarks [1]: > Ultimately, the POWER8 is able to offer slightly higher raw performance than the Intel CPUs, however it just won't be able to do so at the same performance/watt. Meanwhile the reasonable pricing of the POWER8 chips should result in third party servers that are strongly competitive with the Xeon on a performance-per-dollar basis. I think the comparison is fair, however I also have to say that repeating all the benchmarks in the rest of the article with power8 as well, would have been better. It seems to me a bit like the power8 comparison was an afterthought. [1] http://anandtech.com/show/9193/the-xeon-e78800-v3-review/7 http://anandtech.com/show/9193/the-xeon-e78800-v3-review/7
- scott_s 11y agoDid you read far enough to get to the benchmarks? The Power8 chips do very well, and their discussion says good things about it - it does not read like advertising from Intel. Disclaimer: I work for IBM (but not on hardware).