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Since the silicon pipeline is long from conception to on the shelf I wonder what Gelsinger will focus on.
Pricing/positioning moves are quick if they can be supported by manufacturing.
Deals/acquisitions are risky and take nearly as long as new silicon to really work if ever.
Longer term I wonder what markets he will focus on.
I wonder how long before we see his actions and any results.
Ideas?
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just hope a replay of something like Rambus doesn't happen again...
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73 and still kicking here.
I was just a middle manager anyway. Lots of those available.
I think it is good news as well. But I hope they realize that it's 20 years later and address current market issues. Hard to believe it's been two decades!
Stay safe!
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So will Koog and Golfbum be recalled to active duty? HA!
I thought of the "band back together" as well when I read that.
Stay safe!
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Or as the natives called it: "Westfid"!
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If you ever traveled to Chelmsford or Westford sales offices I'm sure we met.
Stay safe!
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Sounds like you might have been on the 8096 crew!
I was in Massachusetts for the first few years, Florida for a while then Folsom before retiring.
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I joined in June of '82 in the field as an FAE after working for military companies for 13 years.
Retired in 2000.
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As a former employee, who long ago retired while Intel was in its prime, it has been very disappointing to see their decline.
I long ago sold all my shares so I'm no longer a direct stockholder. There's probably some buried in an ETF somewhere.
good luck to all
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What ever happened to the new whizbang super computer that intel was working on?
Did it die? Or has it been delayed (again)?
Nevermind....delayed again....
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I remember the days before I retired in 2000 that product groups had to carefully plan with corp marketing on when to do the next product announcement to avoid stepping on each other. There was serious calendar conflicts and competition.
Those days are far, far in the past...
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New graphics chip from Intel apparently targets HPC as well as the usual suspects. It will play a big role in the HPC machine being built.
https://www.intc.com/investor-relations/investor-education-and-news/investor-news/press-release-details/2019/Intel-Unveils-New-GPU-Architecture-with-High-Performance-Computing-and-AI-Acceleration-and-oneAPI-Software-Stack-with-Unified-and-Scalable-Abstraction-for-Heterogeneous-Architectures/default.aspx
I guess it will eventually inhabit on chip graphics as well.
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I sorta understand blockchain but not enough to explain it to anyone.
Based on reading reports I understand it can be used to document transactions other than pretending to be money.
That use could be significant but likely not for AMD/Nvidia buyers trying to get rich in their mother's basement.
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There was supposed to be an explosion of cryptocurrencies which would keep mining going for quite a while with AMD/Nvidia offerings. The reality is that there was mostly an implosion.
With Bitcoin now at $5000 rather than $20K it isn't profitable to consume massive amounts of electricity to mine the increasingly difficult/rare coin.
What mining is done now is done with purpose built ASICs that are marginally efficient enough to be profitable.
The mining malware foisted on others is an attempt to enslave other computers to do the work. But no one is buying fancy cards to unintentionally loan out unwillingly.
The market overhang resulting from this will show up on ebay as cards sold for a tenth of their original price for a long time. That will have a significant impact on AMD/Nvidia new card sales for some time.
Bye, bye, graphics cards for mining.
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I suspect the "budget" designs were on the original 14nm. IIRC they now have 14+ and 14++. Perhaps the combination of all the variants is too much.
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I think this makes AMD sole sourced to TSMC. IIRC they’ve never done business with Samsung.
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Global Foundries pulls the plug on 7nm. I wonder what this means for the NY state fabs.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13277/globalfoundries-stops-all-7nm-development
IBM won't be too happy.
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@ mmoy:
I think you said one time your son is in this space:
https://www.hpcwire.com/2018/03/01/part-one-deep-dive-2018-trends-life-sciences-hpc/
What's your take on this?
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Intel 5G:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12477/intel-launches-stratix-10-tx-leveraging-emib-with-58g-transceivers-
Is this a big deal for Intel?
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Remember when we used to talk about exciting new product introductions and financial gains resulting from those?
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Philomena aka Phi?
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I'm rather sceptical of Ryzen's boasts. Intel has flogged the x86 for years to unearth any potential performance worth pursuing while not killing a reasonable power budget.
They have a monster set of tools and traces to do this with.
I seriously doubt any major things have been left undiscovered.
Especially by a marginally funded AMD.
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I haven't had time to listen to the CC yet. I take it from the lack of posts there was nothing new or exciting?
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Do you truly not get it??????
The consumer (buys at Amazon, Best Buy, etc) doesn't understand or give a crap about 7nm or whatever.
The designer doesn't care either about a marketing name called "7nm". They care about the details like current, voltage, cell size, etc.
The only ones that care about the marketing name of "7nm" are those who neither buy nor design.
Which are you?
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You need to differentiate between "average consumer" and the "designing consumer".
The AC just buys a product and doesn't care what's inside rather what it does.
The DC cares a lot about the technical details such as currents, pitches, etc since it makes it possible for the DC to do their job to deliver what the AC sees.
I doubt very much that the marketing number makes much difference to the DC when they can't get their products to work.
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I expect to see a nonlinear increase in "buy it outside" influenced by the new kid.
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All would be well advised to listen to Rick Coulson. No BS there. Perhaps a result of misinterpretation by the article author.
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I hope these things live up to their billing. It seems like 3DXpoint based products are taking a long time to come to market. Although everything in the server world moves at a snail's pace.
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Thanks!
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In your post is B indicating Bytes or Bits?
I usually see B=Bytes and b=bits.
thanks
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I think the message in the Samsung failure is that if you want battery life you need to keep your silicon appetite curbed rather than pressing forward beyond safe limits in battery.
Silicon has been slowing for a while now and battery breakthroughs don't appear easy either.
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A bridge too far:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/11/13202608/samsung-galaxy-note-7-discontinued
Perhaps there's a limit to what can be done in a mobile?
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I regard all of the hand wringing about the obvious marketing misnaming of the various processes as a waste of time.
The customers who have products built on the various foundry processes only want to know if the next process will work better than the last and give them a price/performance outcome that is favorable.
If someone wanted to use Intel as their foundry they would do so on the basis of their understanding perhaps from some test chips that represent what they would build. That's likely how they decide the relative technical merits among the candidate foundries. And technical merit of process is only one of many factors in the decision.
Cheering various players from the sidelines is useless crapola.
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!!!!!
i make sure to write my name in reverse on my forehead at night to verify my identity in the mirror in the morning!!!
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IIRC, the Intel situation is still in play at the final level.
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Non Volatile Memory
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