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As toxic as Brian Krazinich was, you can’t really blame one person for the problem at Intel. Yes, he and Murthy initiated the layoffs. But then the orders were executed by mid/seni…

There’s another side to the Intel 10nm process debacle. Intel designers and architects have relied on a process and manufacturing advantage for years to overwhelm any problems they…

LOL I remember working on Cannonlake A0. The dozen (not plural) parts we got passed sort but all bricked. Turns out the PLL was randomly losing lock due to variation alone. Also th…

This will age poorly. Performance king at unconstrained power is utterly irrelevant from a financial point of view, and requires very little engineering effort to boot: shoving amp…

LOL yeah. He lured a bunch of his old buddies from retirement with fat packages as if those old Intel-lifer hacks had any fresh ideas to contribute. Pat is literally an Intel swamp…

Less cache, much smaller OOO window, AVX-512. E-core is an area play so Intel can score some multi-thread benchmarketing wins on integer heavy code that don’t have larger memory/ca…

Bunch of nonsense. The issue is mismanagement and incompetence. Charlie got suckered by Intel management talking points.

Intel fanboys whine about Apple/Intel CPU comparisons, here is their answer. The takeaway from the story: connecting a bunch of shitty chiplets together makes a shitty SoC. Except …

LOL. Anyone who works in chip design would know much M1/M2 changed the hardware game. It is actually the dabbler enthusiast talking about how power/perf isn’t important because his…

They know it matters, they just don’t have the competence to do it since they promoted a bunch of toadies and charlatans into their technical leadership, and also outsourced a ton …

It isn’t. TSMC has multiple customers lined up with the volume required to ramp these processes to high volume, Intel only has their own designs and whatever foundry customers will…

Trusting Intel to be the torch bearer of Western semiconductor manufacturing is a grievous mistake to begin with. Intel is crippled with incompetence and corruption, government mon…

My org lost a few people to Intel. They all did their research and know full well the technical and managerial leadership at Intel are total clowns and that Intel is finished. So t…

Looks bad. I have two examples to go with: - The Sapphire Rapids validation catastrophe proves they haven’t learned a damn thing about high quality first silicon even after all the…

lol this will age well. i remember designing CPUs at intel when they had like a ~2.5 gen process lead (literally 4-5 years) and the result was still barely better than competition.…

You are completely over-complicating things. P6 derivatives stuck with “traditional” Tomasulo algorithm for way too long. Everyone else moved to pointers for arch regs long before …

No, it wasn’t. Sandybridge started with the Nehalem code base. I was there when it happened.

Yeah, they are done. Worked there for 15+ years in the CPU design org. The total collapse of the technical cadre in the 2010s will be studied in business schools as a case study of…

And when it doesn’t, will you apologize for calling everyone else a fanboy because they don’t buy into your excuses? Go compare the perf/power curves of the alder-lake cores (both …

LOL yeah. More powerful, i.e. it consumes more power. Fun fact: the M1 big core caps itself around the same wattage where most Intel SKU consider the core to be below stock wattage…

"Dunno why every comment implies there's some design gap that leads to M1 or AMD being more powerful or efficient." That is because there is a huge design gap. Intel architecture a…

Will give him less than two years. High level individual contributors like him are absolute poison to the Intel bureaucracy.

Because Intel is too incompetent to design a CPU that can perform at 1 watt, which is what it takes to run 4 cores in a fanless chassis.

Even if you ignore the software world which has been easily outpacing hardware compensation for the last decade, if you only look at hardware companies, Intel has been either at or…

Yeah agreed. I was there through the high point, through when the company committed suicide and finally resigned when the corpse started to stink publicly. Blaming everything on th…