Intel's CEO Bob Swan is looking beyond CPU market share:
"We think about having 30% share in a $230 billion [silicon] TAM[*] that we think is going to grow to $300 billion [silicon] TAM over the next 4 years, and frankly, I'm trying to destroy the thinking about having 90% share inside our company because, I think it limits our thinking, I think we miss technology transitions. we miss opportunities because we're, in some ways pre-occupied with protecting 90, instead of seeing a much bigger market with much more innovation going on, both Inside our four walls, and outside our four walls, so we come to work in the morning with a 30% share, with every expectation over the next several years, that we will play a larger and larger role in our customers success, and that doesn't just [mean] CPUs.
It means GPUs, it means Al, it does mean FPGAs, it means bringing these -technologies together so we're solving customers' problems. So, we're looking at a company with roughly 30% share in a $288 billion silicon TAM, not CPU TAM but silicon TAM. We look at the investments we've been making over the last several years in these kind of key technology inflections: 5G At autonomous, acquisitions, including Altera, that we think is more and more relevant both in the cloud but also ai the network and at the edge, and we see a much bigger opportunity, and our expectations are that we're going to gain our fair share at that much larger TAM by Investing in these key technology inflections." - Intel CEO Bob Swan
A 30% TAM in all of silicon would mean that Intel not only has more room to grow but is a lot more diversified as well. With the company working on the Nervana processor as well as its Xe GPU efforts, it seems poised to start clawing market share in new markets. Interestingly, it also means that Intel is not interested in defending its older title of being the CPU champion and will actually cede space to AMD where required. To me, this move is reminiscent of Lisa Su's decision to cede space in the GPU side of things to turn AMD around.
Intel's business strategy is now focused on whatever an "XPU" is as well as GPUs, FPGAs, machine learning accelerators, and next-generation memory/storage:
This means the company intends to continue making its heaviest bets in areas such as Optane storage, hardware Artificial Intelligence acceleration, 5G modems, data center networking, and more. The slide that really drives this commitment home comes from Q2's investor meeting that explicitly shows the company moving from a "protect and defend" strategy to a growth strategy. If this slide were in a sales meeting, it wouldn't say much—but delivered to the company's investors, it gains a bit of gravitas.
Most of this was revealed nearly six months ago at the company's May 2019 investor's meeting, but the Q3 investor's meeting last week continues with and strengthens this story for Intel's future growth, with slides more focused on Optane, network, and IoT/Edge market growth than with the traditional PC and server market.
[*] TAM = Total Addressable Market.
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CES 2019 Quick Bytes: Consumer 10nm is Coming with Intel's Ice Lake
We've been on Intel's case for years to tell us when its 10nm parts are coming to the mass market. Technically Intel already shipped its first 10nm processor, Cannon Lake, but this was low volume and limited to specific geographic markets. This time Intel is promising that its first volume consumer processor on 10nm will be Ice Lake. It should be noted that Intel hasn't put a date on Ice Lake launching, but has promised 10nm on shelves by the end of 2019. It has several products that could qualify for that, but Ice Lake is the likely suspect.
At Intel's Architecture Day in December, we saw chips designated as 'Ice Lake-U', built for 15W TDPs with four cores using the new Sunny Cove microarchitecture and Gen11 graphics. Intel went into some details about this part, which we can share with you today.
The 15W processor is a quad core part supporting two threads per core, and will have 64 EUs of Gen11 graphics. 64 EUs will be the standard 'GT2' mainstream configuration for this generation, up from 24 EUs today. In order to drive that many execution units, Intel stated that they need 50-60 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which will come from LPDDR4X memory. In order for those numbers to line up, they will need LPDDR4X-3200 at a minimum, which gives 51.2 GB/s. [...] For connectivity, the chips will support Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) if the laptop manufacturer uses the correct interface module, but the support for Wi-Fi 6 is in the chip. The processor also supports native Thunderbolt 3 over USB Type-C, marking the first Intel chip with native TB3 support.
Robert Swan Named CEO of Intel
Intel today announced that its board of directors had named Robert Swan, its CFO and interim CEO, as full-time chief executive officer. Mr. Swan will be the company's first CEO with financial background. As the head of the company, Mr. Swan will continue Intel's transformation from a PC-centric to a data-centric company with a focus on improving execution and aggressive capturing addressable markets using ambitious technologies.
Robert Swan (58) becomes chief exec of Intel at a rather interesting, yet challenging time. The world is at a strategical inflection point when multiple technologies have to converge in a bid to enable the next phase of industrial and social development. To stay relevant, Intel not only needs to retain its leading position as a developer and maker of CPUs and compute platforms, but also gain new important competencies. Meanwhile, the company is facing multiple challenges. Its traditional rivals are getting stronger (partly because they are forming alliances) and new competitors are emerging. In the meantime, Intel's leadership in semiconductor production is now challenged and many of its opponents have certain advantages.
Previously: Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Quits after Fling with Coworker Revealed
AMD Responds to Radeon VII Short Supply Rumors
AMD Market Share Gains Accelerate in Desktop PCs, Servers and Notebooks
During the company's recent earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su alluded to market share gains in the fourth quarter of 2018 but didn't provide specific figures.
Today AMD shared numbers from third-party industry analyst firm Mercury Research that outline those gains. AMD gained share in desktop PC processors, notebooks, and servers, highlighting that its Zen-based processors continue to pressure Intel on all fronts, but more importantly, AMD's rate of growth is also accelerating. These improvements come as the company is on the cusp of releasing 7nm processors for the desktop PC and server markets, marking its first process node lead over Intel.
AMD now holds 15.8% of the desktop processor market, a 2.8% gain on a quarterly basis and a 3.9% year-over-year (YoY) improvement. That represents the company's largest portion of the market since the fourth quarter of 2014. [...] Notebook processors are critical because they comprise two-thirds of the overall processor market, but AMD has been plagued by slow uptake. That tide seems to be turning as the company gained 1.3% share on the quarter and a whopping 5.3% more share YoY. That marks the company's highest percentage of the notebook market since Q3 2013.
[...] During the company's recent earnings call, Lisa Su said that AMD had achieved its goal to claim "mid-single-digit" data center share in 2018. However, Mercury Research's server share projections are lower at 3.2% unit share. AMD shared its take on the disparity:
Mercury Research captures all x86 server class processors in their server unit estimate, regardless of device (server, network or storage), whereas the estimated 1P [single-socket] and 2P [two-socket] TAM [Total Addressable Market] provided by IDC only includes traditional servers. We used IDC's server forecast of the 1P and 2P server TAM of roughly 5M units to compute our server market share estimates. We believe that in Q4 2018 we achieved ~5% unit share of the 1P and 2P server market addressed by our EPYC processors (as defined by IDC).
Previously: AMD Improves Server Market Share by 100%... to 2%
Strong corporate desktop sales limit the decline of the PC market
Gartner and IDC have both published their quarterly reports on the size of the PC market in the first quarter of 2019, and they've both agreed: about 58.5 million systems were shipped.
[...] Both Gartner and IDC say that there's continued influence from the shortage of Intel processors, caused by the company's long-delayed transition to 10nm manufacturing. That situation leaves Intel's 14nm manufacturing facilities overburdened. Gartner analysts said that these concerns disrupted the growth seen in the second quarter last year, as the delays prompted Intel to focus on higher margin products, with PC vendors following suit. IDC similarly cited the shortage of Intel chips at the low end as partly to blame for the market decline. To the extent that low-end chips were available, the PC companies seem to be favoring putting them in Chromebooks rather than Windows machines.
Both firms also say that smaller PC vendors were more affected than larger ones, suggesting that Intel is giving priority to its biggest customers.
Countering this effect somewhat was stronger than expected commercial desktop sales, as companies continue their Windows 10 refresh cycle. However, Gartner's analysts feel that this may have peaked. Going forward, greater adoption of AMD's processors is expected to reduce the impact of supply constraints.
Major OEMs "sourcing alternative CPUs from AMD" to counter Intel slump
"The supply constraints affected the vendor competitive landscape as leading vendors had better allocation of chips and also began sourcing alternative CPUs from AMD," Mikako Kitagawa, senior analyst at Gartner says. "The top three vendors worldwide were still able to increase shipments despite the supply constraint by focusing on their high-end products and taking share from small vendors that struggled to secure CPUs."
[...] China is reportedly sick and tired of PCs at this point, and Latin America experienced a huge 16.6% decline in PC shipments during the period reportedly due to political and economic instability. Only Japan is said to have experienced any growth in the market at all, with everyone else refusing to upgrade old systems.
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Talking at the Canalys Channels Forum in Barcelona, Alex Cho, president of HP's Personal Systems Business, claimed Intel's supply worries were across a portfolio of products, "not just specific CPUs".
[...] At the same event in the Catalonian capital, Gianfranco Lanci, chief operating officer at Lenovo, branded the lack of chips as a "concern" and a "limitation", saying the global PC market shipments could have grown at 7 to 8 per cent in Q3 if availability had improved, rather than the 4 per cent recorded.
[...] Steve Brazier, CEO at Canalys, said the "short answer is that we don't know [what is causing Intel's shortages]. And they are not telling anybody, so nobody completely knows why. All we can do is speculate that they made a serious software design flaw."
He added: "The interesting thing is the PC vendors do not know, they have no better information than we have. There is no sign of a short-term fix."
Of course, this has played into the hands of Intel nemesis AMD, which Brazier claimed was "now equal or ahead in performance – and it's cheaper". The Register is awaiting CPU market share figures from the analyst.
[...] We are also told that organisations, including financial institutions and cloud providers, are replacing current Intel chips with ones that have Meltdown and Spectre fixes built in.
An Intel spokesperson sent us a lengthy statement: "We continue working to improve the supply-demand balance for our PC customers. We invested an added $1bn in capital to achieve more capacity and flexible supply. As a result, we increased our 14nm capacity by 25 per cent while also ramping 10nm production.
"We've improved our supply every quarter. However, in the first half of 2019 we saw PC customer demand that exceeded our expectations and surpassed third-party forecasts. We are actively working to address the supply-demand challenge, and we expect supply in the second half will be up compared to the first half. We continue to prioritise available output toward the newest generation Intel Core products that support our customers' high-growth segments, and we plan to further increase our output capacity in 2020." ®
"Intel today announced its board of directors has approved a $20 billion increase in its stock repurchase program authorization. In the third quarter, the company generated approximately $10.7 billion in cash from operations, paid dividends of $1.4 billion, and used $4.5 billion to repurchase 92 million shares of stock".
https://www.intc.com/files/doc_financials/2019/Q3/Q3-2019-Earnings-Release.pdf
Intel's Xe for HPC: Ponte Vecchio with Chiplets, EMIB, and Foveros on 7nm, Coming 2021
Today is Intel's pre-SC19 HPC Devcon event, and with Raja Koduri on stage, the company has given a small glimpse into its high-performance compute accelerator strategy for 2021. Intel disclosed that its new hardware has the codename 'Ponte Vecchio' and will be built on a 7nm process, as well as some other small interesting bits.
[...] For high-performance computing, the presentation highlighted three key areas that the Xe architecture will be targeting. First is a flexible data-parallel vector matrix engine, which plays into the hands of AI acceleration and AI training in a big way. The second is high double precision (FP64) throughput, which has somewhat been disappearing of late due to reduced precision AI workloads, but is still a strong requirement in traditional HPC workloads like, weather, oil and gas, and astronomy. (We should point out that the diagram shows a 15x7 block of units, and Intel's Gen architecture uses 7 threads per execution unit.) The third tine in this trident is that Intel's HPC efforts will have a high cache and memory bandwidth, which the slides suggest will be directly coupled to individual compute chiplets ensuring a fast interconnect.
So in this case, enter Ponte Vecchio, named after the bridge that crosses the river Arno in Florence, Italy. This will be Intel's first 'exascale class' graphics solution, and is clearly using both chiplet technology (based on 7nm) and Foveros/die stacking packaging methods. We further confirmed after our call, based on discussions we had with Intel earlier in the year, that Ponte Vecchio will also use Intel's Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology, joining chiplets together. Pulling all the chips into a single package is fine, meanwhile GPU-to-GPU communication will occur through a Compute eXpress Link (CXL) interface, layered on top of PCIe 5.0.
Intel's 2021 Exascale Vision in Aurora: Two Sapphire Rapids CPUs with Six Ponte Vecchio GPUs
As part of today's announcement, Intel has put some information on the table for a typical 'Aurora' [supercomputer] compute note. While not giving any specifics such as core counts or memory types, the company stated that a standard node will contain two next generation CPUs and six next generation GPUs, all connected via new connectivity standards.
Those CPUs will be Sapphire Rapids CPUs, Intel's second generation of 10nm server processors coming after the Ice Lake Xeons. The announcement today reaffirmed that Sapphire Rapids is a 2021 processor; and likely a late 2021 processor, as the company also confirmed that Ice Lake will have its volume ramp through late 2020. Judging from Intel's images, Sapphire Rapids is set to have eight memory channels per processor, with enough I/O to connect to three GPUs. Within an Aurora node, two of these Sapphire Rapids CPUs will be paired together, and support the next generation of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (2nd Gen Optane DCPMM). We already know from other sources that Sapphire Rapids is likely to be DDR5 as well, although I don't believe Intel has said that outright at this point.
See also: Intel Xe GPU Architecture Detailed – Ponte Vecchio Xe HPC Exascale GPU With 1000s of EUs, Massive HBM Memory, Rambo Cache
AnandTech Exclusive: An Interview with Intel's Raja Koduri about Xe
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @02:24AM (2 children)
Intel's 100% share of the market for baked-in spyware is something Boob Swan doesn't want you thinking about.
(Score: 2) by zeigerpuppy on Monday December 09 2019, @08:43AM (1 child)
You do know that AMD also has a similar system (called PSP), right?
Perhaps you may be interested in RISC-V, that looks like it will be auditable at least...
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @12:56PM
Yes, but AMD's sends your data back to China which is of no concern unless you are Uighur, whereas Intel's sends all your information to Israel.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Captival on Monday December 09 2019, @02:31AM (2 children)
Now that they have an actual competitor who is selling a cpu that's more powerful for half the price [youtube.com], suddenly they aren't interested anymore. It's a good thing too, because Intel was just gouging people with ridiculous markups and straight up lies [techspot.com] on that fake news "i9" series.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Monday December 09 2019, @02:54AM
Here's another way to look at it.
Both AMD and Intel are having trouble meeting consumer CPU demand*. AMD's situation might eventually improve since TSMC is expanding production for new nodes aggressively [anandtech.com].
AMD selling more CPUs frees Intel to focus on higher margin products in the higher "silicon" total addressable market, although increasing AMD Epyc server market share means that absurd Xeon prices have to come down. But there are other products including FPGAs and soon GPUs.
*Intel Still Can’t Meet Demand In-House, Increases Reliance On Third Party Foundries [wccftech.com]
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(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Monday December 09 2019, @06:47AM
They're also seemingly not interested in actually defending their reputation, since they keep trying to PR spin over their continuing security holes.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Monday December 09 2019, @03:20AM (5 children)
Is it too late to stop 5G?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Monday December 09 2019, @04:52AM
Stopping 5G will only make 6G stronger.
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(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday December 09 2019, @05:37AM (2 children)
Yes. To all three questions.
What I really want and need, is an ipv6 endpoint-to-endpoint secure network over funny network. And for that, all the 5G switching infrastructure will be instrumental for the funny part.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday December 09 2019, @06:00AM
Stop making me laugh. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @06:06AM
It is weird that they are pushing for this new 5g thing when IPv6 is something that deserves much more attention and has been mostly ignored for a long time now.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday December 09 2019, @12:43PM
Not to anyone with a sledge hammer and hedge cutters.
The raging diminutive boner intel/isreal clearly has for combining backdoored chips with 5g transmission capabilities is clearly showing through their expensive suitpants.
One chip to rule them all....or so they thought.
It is going to be fun driving this company bankrupt with facts! And making 5g undeployable due to repeated interference by giant raccoons.
Another great reason to boycott sanction and divest from israel, who clearly think we should all lick their boots and be grateful for the chance.
relevant memes:
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @04:12AM (3 children)
"We are not interested in defending our 90% marketshare."
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"You cannot fire me. I quit."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @11:59AM (2 children)
Brilliant.
Agreed. That's the underlying meaning of the Intel announcement. Don't get me wrong, diversifying makes sense when you literally have billions of dollars in profit and no other use for it. But Intel couldn't regain that 90% position no matter how much they wanted it.
Now what we really need to drive prices down is a third major competitor in the consumer desktop CPU space. In a three way battle you might see Ryzen 3950X equivalent parts selling for $75. Unfortunately I don't think any other tech company, even among the giants, is in a position to challenge AMD and Intel on performance in the 60-180 watt power envelope.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Monday December 09 2019, @12:32PM (1 child)
Huawei Launches ARM-Based Desktop Motherboards [soylentnews.org]
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8c and 7c for Cheaper ARM Laptops [soylentnews.org]
ARM is obviously a contender in the personal computing space, although there is nothing targeted at enthusiasts yet, like a 3900X, 3950X, or Threadripper.
ARM is rumored to be targeting discrete GPUs within the next couple of years, potentially turning that into a 4 or 5-way race [pcgamesn.com]. (I can't find a source on ARM discrete GPUs so take that with salt.)
Apple has been thinking about designing its own ARM chips for desktops and laptops for years now. Will they ever make the switch? If they do something like switch from Intel to AMD CPUs (e.g. Threadripper in Mac Pro), I'd say the idea has been delayed for another few more years.
The 60-180 Watt power envelope could be less important than you think. Designs like 3DSoC would use ARM or RISC-V cores, achieve better than current HEDT performance, potentially using less than 1 Watt. That could be scaled up but might remain well under 60 Watts. We might see a situation where the clock speed can't be raised high enough to cause the power consumption to rise back to today's levels. Coming performance increases could satisfy many users at low TDPs. I think most desktop users will eventually be using sub-45 Watt parts with SFF cases (physically larger SFF sizes can fit many more ports than smaller SBCs like Raspberry Pi). Laptop users will be at sub-10W (fanless).
Raspberry Pi 4 is a legitimate lightweight desktop experience. Increase that level of performance by 100x at the same power, and many people will settle for that.
Back to the short term. AMD is currently its own competitor for the most part. Next year's 4950X could cause 3950X to trend down to $500. Zen 4 (5000-series) may lead to core count increases above 16 [soylentnews.org]. Effective competition from Intel by 2022 could lower prices further.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @04:30PM
I agree. I should have been more explicit, I was thinking of PC gaming enthusiasts. That narrower space in the desktop computing market will be harder for ARM to penetrate, both in terms of raw performance and because thousands of existing titles would need x86_64 emulation on top of ARM to run at all.
I haven't taken the Raspberry Pi 4 for a spin, I'll have to do that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @04:40AM (3 children)
FTFY. Because redundancy is redundadnt.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday December 09 2019, @04:54AM (2 children)
The CPU/APU is dead. Long live the XPU.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @05:46AM (1 child)
What is an xpu?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday December 09 2019, @06:04AM
Hot Chips [hotchips.org].
In other meanings - the vaporware of the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday December 09 2019, @12:56PM (4 children)
I have an idea, start a multi trillion dollar company and then completely ruin its reputation by installing a completely untrustworthy feature, then use advertising money to hypnotize superbowl viewers into ignoring all privacy concerns for 3% performance benefits that will mostly be used by spyware anyway.
Boycott intel, we need completely different people making cpus. I will go ahead and say any chip that is known to have 5g intel on it, you should destroy in any and all situations that your life does not depend on.
Which is to say, intel as a company is an equal threat to humanity at this point as cancer itself, and their products should be treated as such.
'maybe the spy agency and cpu factory should not be the same building.' - me
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Monday December 09 2019, @01:07PM (3 children)
Intel is almost never the price/performance leader. It's overpriced spyware and Meltdown bait.
For the paranoid who don't trust AMD or ARM, RISC-V looks like the only solution in the near-term.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2009/12/ftc-challenges-intels-dominance-worldwide-microprocessor-markets [ftc.gov]
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(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday December 09 2019, @01:43PM (2 children)
thank this is informative.
Do you think the organization producing risc-v and others can be more trustworthy about what they are doing?
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Monday December 09 2019, @02:39PM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V [wikipedia.org]
It can be modified and cut down as anybody pleases, and targets a range similar to ARM, covering embedded processors and personal computing. For example, Western Digital could start making billions of its SweRV design RISC-V cores [westerndigital.com] to act as controllers for HDDs and SSDs, and companies like SiFive [wikipedia.org] are designing chips that are more applicable to desktop computers.
The final pieces of the puzzle are that you need to trust a particular implementation and wherever the hardware is coming from (and that the shipment wasn't redirected to a nondescript warehouse and altered by CIA/NSA). Maybe you need to manufacture the hardware yourself using Star Trek level technology, or maybe some small co-op/hackerspace will be able to do it.
AFAIK, RISC-V has sucked most of the mindshare away from OpenPOWER and other designs. The biggest obstacle to adoption will be ARM, which will be changing its licensing terms to try to stop companies from moving to RISC-V:
Dear chip designers: It will no longer cost you an Arm and a leg to use these CPU cores (well, not at first, anyway...) [theregister.co.uk]
Arm Eases Upfront Licensing Fees to Head Off RISC-V [electronicdesign.com]
Arm Responds to RISC-V, and More [eetimes.com]
Here's most of our coverage:
The First RISC-V Workshop has Content Online [soylentnews.org]
First Open Source RISC-V Implementations Become Available [soylentnews.org]
RISC-V Projects to Collaborate [soylentnews.org]
SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor [soylentnews.org]
Western Digital Unveils RISC-V Controller Design [soylentnews.org]
Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership [soylentnews.org]
Linux Foundation and RISC-V Proponents Launch CHIPS Alliance [soylentnews.org]
Qualcomm Invests in RISC-V Startup SiFive [soylentnews.org]
Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU [soylentnews.org]
RISC-V Chip Made From 15,000 Carbon Nanotube Transistors [soylentnews.org]
SiFive Announces a RISC-V Core With an Out-of-Order Microarchitecture [soylentnews.org]
Cambridge Boffins and Google Unveil OpenTitan, an Open-Source Blueprint for a Root of Trust [soylentnews.org] (an example of just because it has RISC-V, doesn't mean you will trust it)
GlobalFoundries and SiFive Partner on High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2E) [soylentnews.org]
U.S.-Based Chip-Tech Group Moving to Switzerland Over Trade Curb Fears [soylentnews.org]
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(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday December 10 2019, @03:10PM
This is awesome, thank you.
My kind of thing, thanks for sharing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @02:32PM
These are the folks that invented computer on a chip and tick toc.
That's two major, fundamental technologies. (Computer design and semiconductor processing)
That is a great technology base to leverage other things like fpga and special purpose processors.
They used these in concert to make the best available value for their customers.
They got the cpu market thru shear technology.
Then they got cocky and tried to keep it thru marketing.
Sad that they seem to have forgotten to focus on the technology base that sustains them.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday December 09 2019, @11:45PM
AMD: Our Goal Is To Get 10% Server Share By Q2 2020 With 2nd Gen EPYC CPUs & To Surpass Historical Levels In Both Server & Desktop Segments [wccftech.com]
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