Re:Kepler, Nvidia's Strong Start on 28 nm
by froggit on Friday November 24, 2023 @09:19PM
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you forgot to mention they did a great job building a hyper optimized 14nm process, spent at least 5 years on it...
Re:Kepler, Nvidia's Strong Start on 28 nm
by akira2501 on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:14PM
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> Intel actually did a lot in the last decade.
That's the expected case when you have tons of cash and market dominance.
> are making a reactionary take about the lack of post-Skylake microarchitectures
Or about the general inability of large monopolies to effectively compete and continue to deliver according to market expectations.
> or years because they care about video games more than safety.
And yet, they still had a "server chips" division for much of that time.
You mention their iGPUs, but their iGPUs actually got radically better in the timespan you mention; Iris, if properly cooled and not memory-choked, was actually pretty decent for a lot of purposes.
It does and historically has had a pretty terrible board, and its management hasn't been the greatest, but people who complain about them doing nothing for most of a decade generally are making a reactionary take about the lack of post-Skylake microarchitectures, while ignoring that pretty much everyone's performance gains got swallowed by vulnerability mitigations for years because they care about video games more than safety.