Intel Corp (INTC)

[DavidA2]

So it may take Gen9 and Skylake before Intel can get ahead of nVidia at their own game.

I was hoping that Gen 8 and Broadwell will do what "Maxwell" did and get 2x perf/watt improvements without changing process. For all the hype they had(like at Phoronix articles) about Gen 8, its the least impressive graphics change on a process shrink ever.

With Gen 9, based on their roadmap, I don't think we'll get more than 30-40% increase. Otherwise Skylake GT2 would be too close to the Broadwell GT3 on the halo parts.

Cherrytrail today would be winning designs left and right, but next year, it will score similarly with 20nm designs. Broxton would probably destroy 20nm designs, but find itself matched by ARM 16nmFF designs in 2016.

It seems the optimization the ARM guys do on older processes are enough to catch up to Intel on a supposedly superior process.

Also, it always seems to be up to the "Core" guys to bring the company out of trouble.