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Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC

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Re: Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC

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Link seems to go to "Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC" instead?

edit: oh, derp. nevermind. there's a second page: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331317&page_numb...

edit edit: so apparently page 2 can't be linked to. whatever. bottom of the article content has a "next page" link.

Re: Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC

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I should have linked to the second page: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331317&page_numb...

Relevant quote:

"AMD said its upcoming Zen x86 core fits into a 10 percent smaller die area than Intel’s currently shipping second-generation 14nm processor. Analysts and even Intel engineers in the session said the Zen core is clearly competitive though many confidential variables will determine whether the die advantage translates into lower cost for AMD."

Re: Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC

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There's a lot that goes into CPU performance. Go to http://wccftech.com/ryzen-smaller-die-intel-zen-architecture... and search for "Table courtesy of the Linley Group" without quotes to see an extremely interesting table: http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Zen-Doubl...

> Intel has a double precision IPC of 16 FLOPs per Clock with Skylake as well as 2x 256 bit FMA whereas Zen only has 8 FLOPs per clock and 2* 128 bit FMA.

FMA=Fused multiply-add. It remains to be seen whether dollar for dollar AMD matches Intel or not -- it's likely to be very application dependent.

Re: Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC

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AMD really needs to start competing on price. Match Intel and Nvidia performance, at 75% TCO.

Given early benchmarks are showing that the Ryzen 7 1700X ($390) is performing similarly to the Intel Core i7-6900K ($1050), they definitely are going in that direction.

http://hothardware.com/news/amds-ryzen-7-1700x-delivers-i7-6...

Re: Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC

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AMD really needs to start competing on price. Match Intel and Nvidia performance, at 75% TCO.

I think they could carve out a niche by being the chip maker that produces a trustworthy computing environment that supports blob-free computing without the equivalent of Intel Management Engine.

That plus your point about TCO could be a nice way of competing with Intel.

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