consider the impact this could make on someting else… do we really need a new cpu, or would it be better allocated to figure out how to stop famine, wars, disease?
“Intel has outsourced part of its production to external foundries for decades, and the benefits outweigh the negatives. Additionally, the company is in a better technological position than when it struggled to get 10nm chips out the door. If Intel had allowed itself to produce its CPUs at TSMC back then, then perhaps it wouldn’t have lost as much market share to AMD as it has in recent years.”
It’s a good tactic for Intel - stuff TSMC foundries with Intel wafers so other companies have to use intels foundries
Isn’t that the Norwegian strategy?
uhh Apple straight up buys entire runs of TSMC nodes. AMD, Nvidia and Intel combined wouldn’t have enough money for that strategy to work.
Nvidia does. AMD doesn’t.
Intel probably could, but their margins are too slim.
Intel’s strategy is probably shifting towards higher margin products, I’d guess a lot of older intel nodes get bought for mil purposes.
Too lazy to read. Are they manufacturing in Taiwan now?
Eh I’m too lazy to answer
healthy relationship, good for the market, and smart play from Intel
It’s good for Intel, not for the market.
Besides they need an edge for their gpu
its already really good and the most interesting thing happening right now… but they need to implement frame generation.
get driver performance up to par then worry about that. in games where they’ve fixed drivers the performance is fantastic for the price. in other games they’re slow or unplayable.
though I suppose the next design may need less time on drivers since apparently the current design has memory handling issues resolved by software.
Frame generation is ass even on Nvidia GPUs
Yeah that have it is called xess.
has it expanded into frame generation yet, or is it like early DLSS and FSR where it’s primarily upscaling an image. Frame generation is a bit different than that.
No frame generation yet. Only AI upscaling.
I guess then no there is no interpolated frames on Intel’s implementation yet.
amd made the smart move to ditch semiconductor production and focus on designing and outsourcing, cheaper and more profitable, intel probably realize it by now
So finally leaving 10nm behind for dies that could greatly benefit from more advanced nodes?
I guess it won’t take too many years from now on to get good battery life from an Intel laptop. Most AMDs still get 1.5-2 times the battery life, all else equal. This can only be good.
Most AMDs still get 1.5-2 times the battery life
Meteor Lake is promising 50% more efficiency for the same level of performance as 13th gen. That should more than bring the laptop efficiency fight back to AMD. I’m not sure about the 2 times, they would usually have a few hours more, unless you mean the H series under load or something.
Maybe my next platform will be Intel again, if the Intel finally makes a CPU that’s faster than the competition and at the same time doesn’t consume as much power as a high end GPU. Basically I want the Haswell times back (AMD was slower ,inefficient, hot and a power hog compared to Intel even if Intel only had half the cores)… until then I’ll stay with Ryzen.
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Big question is when would Intel start getting chips from N3B. If its H2 of 2024 then capacity wont be an issue as TSMC should have both N3B/N3E in production and can support anyone who is ready to pay. Obviously Intel is using TSMC for all GFX tiles across all chips and also all non CPU products like Gaudi though Gaudi 3 is just on N5(which is weird in 2024).
If you can’t beat them, join them.
What happened to the investments with chips act?
Intel will still produce domestic CPUs. There is too large a market not to, in the corporate and government sectors.
They’re just also doing orders externally. These will largely all be consumer-only segments.
These contracts and roadmaps for chips are done years in advance.
so when are these new ‘next gen’ intel 5nm?? hitting the shelfs exactly? I am sitting on 9900k waiting to be finally put to rest, but it was a great cpu even now playing everything at 4k60+ with 4090
I don’t know of any Intel nodes called “5nm”, but Intel 4 based client chips are launching in laptops on Dec. 14th, and 20A based desktop chips are launching sometime next year, likely in the typical October - November timeframe Intel usually launches desktop chips.
The 5nm are for data centers only I believe. Arrow Lake for customers is 2nm and that’s supposed to be late 2024/ early 2025
Not sure if this is what Pat originally meant by “5 nodes in 4 years”
I remember Nvidia spent like $11 Billion in 2021 in preparation of current gen chips so $14 billion on chips including thos on N3B checks out