Re:Intel enters a new era of chiplets
by tambourine_man on Saturday August 27, 2022 @04:02PM
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They were never in trouble on the manufacturing part. In fact, they’ve been the best at it for 40 years.
I think it’s way easier to dig yourself out of a whole by picking up a previous architecture and updating it (ditching the Pentium 4 and using the 3 as the basis for the Core architecture) than it is by regaining manufacturing lead, especially when there’s only one company that’s able to do it these days. Lots of companies are able to make compelling architectures with different instruction sets. Actual chip making, however, is TSCM.
How Intel lost their lead is probably the greatest business case to be studied in our industry’s recent history.
I think it’s way easier to dig yourself out of a whole by picking up a previous architecture and updating it (ditching the Pentium 4 and using the 3 as the basis for the Core architecture) than it is by regaining manufacturing lead, especially when there’s only one company that’s able to do it these days. Lots of companies are able to make compelling architectures with different instruction sets. Actual chip making, however, is TSCM.
How Intel lost their lead is probably the greatest business case to be studied in our industry’s recent history.