The Fall of Intel



I'm really not sure what the game plan is here.

If they'd provided funds: i can see it as being a matter of national security to save intel.

But to not provide any funding? Though i do hear this was a demand to continue to get the CHIPS act funds.
 

… in which it is revealed that the real reason Trump wants the stake in Intel is because the gov’t would then have inside information that he can trade stocks on in order to personally profit….

I’m not sure Intel needed to be told that they had to drop any diversity initiatives as part of the deal, but I’d bet the WH did so anyway.
 

Intel taking recycling seriously. Rereleasing a Comet Lake chip.

The Core i5-110 is a desktop processor, meaning it is compatible with an LGA1200 socket and either an Intel 400-series or 500-series motherboard. However, Intel has introduced two new sockets since LGA1200, so it's a mystery just how many consumers still have a LGA1200 motherboard that can accommodate the Core i5-110.

Despite the Core i5-110 being a blatant rebrand, Intel is still charging the same price for the chip as it was when it launched five years ago. The RCP (Recommended Customer Price) for the Core i5-110 is $200, which falls within the same range as the Core i5-10400's $200 to $210. It's an insane price considering that 14nm+++ chips should be dirt cheap to produce by now.

At $200, the Core i5-110 is supposed to be a value processor, but it's hard to see the value in it.
 

Intel offered a high-level preview of single-threaded performance with Cougar Cove, suggesting that the new P-core can deliver 10% higher performance at similar power to Lunar and Arrow Lake, or 40% lower power at similar performance in less demanding workloads.

The multi-threaded performance story for Panther Lake is a bit muddier. Intel claims that Panther Lake can deliver 50% more performance at similar power to Lunar Lake, or 30% lower power for multi-threaded performance similar to Arrow Lake-H.

Of course, if we consider these charts in their entirety, Panther Lake can also deliver higher absolute performance at similar power to Arrow Lake-H, emphasizing the greater performance scalability of what we assume to be the 4P+8E+4LPE package.

So a tweaked core design for both E and P cores and new node, but I’m not sure that even Intel’s own relative performance prognosticators are all that impressive?

Starting with multicore:


Unless I’m misunderstanding Intel is comparing a 4+8+4 Panther Lake chip to a 4+4 Lunar Lake chip to get the 50% performance improvement at the same power, so that number doesn’t really seem useful? The second number comparing it Arrow Lake are like more germaine.

The ST is also odd because according to notebookcheck data on actual laptops Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake had vastly different efficiencies in the wild and yet here they are comparable?


The ARL-LNL curves do separate (and PTL gets better too relative to both) at lower power but overall this must be an Int vs FP issue since the Intel curve in the chart is on SpecInt while the notebookcheck data is using CB R24, mostly a floating point test.

It’s also odd that they chose such a high power draw for their main stat given that again it seems that PTL actually gets better at lower power draw. Advertising 10% performance improvement for the same power draw doesn’t seem that great? The 40% power efficiency is nice, but overall it seems this is mostly down to the node improvement. And even then it’s not clear how big an improvement that node is, given that Intel is jumping from N3B. So if this is the result how will Intel’s 18A compare to TSMC’s upcoming 2nm? -though of course 18A is launching first and will be competing again N3P. I’m just not sure TSMC should be worried by that even if Intel had its act together in terms of being a foundry for 3rd parties?

I do like the tile system (unsurprisingly I know) but basically I feel like I read a list of extremely promising sounding improvements - first to ribbon-FET, first to BSPD, new cores (okay even Intel admits they’re optimized designs) - to get just a decent but not massive upgrade in the end. Like I felt it was building to a much bigger reveal that what it was and maybe than it needed to be. But we’ll see.
 

So Intel is joining the MFG club, that leave AMD and Apple as the odd ones out. They are the first to bring it to older GPU's as well.
 
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