Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake
by klelatti on Saturday November 07, 2020 @07:03AM
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> Yes, smaller devices enable better designs.
Which is probably why AMD has better IPC now.
> they called it "tick-tock" which is the cycle of developing a new microarchitecture on one node and then porting to a smaller node.
The whole tick-tock cycle has been interrupted by the 10nm failure which has almost certainly thrown off their architecture development cycle. It's not about moving cores to a smaller node its about knowing whether you're designing for 10nm or 14 nm.
Which is probably why AMD has better IPC now.
> they called it "tick-tock" which is the cycle of developing a new microarchitecture on one node and then porting to a smaller node.
The whole tick-tock cycle has been interrupted by the 10nm failure which has almost certainly thrown off their architecture development cycle. It's not about moving cores to a smaller node its about knowing whether you're designing for 10nm or 14 nm.