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I had to teach that class (Constructive Confrontation) many times when there were still mandatory Intel University classes. (Are there still?) My manager at the time told me I was a natural for it. Hmmm. Who? Me?
Yup, I could tell some great stories, but I won't. One personal comment made...
And there's probably 100,000-150,000 Arm server CPUs deployed per month from Ampere, AWS Gravitons, and whatever Azure is deploying, but these are very rough guesses.
Isn't it great when someone who doesn't know what they're talking about doubles down on their fallacies?
I suspect you're thinking about client CPU volumes, which are hundreds of millions per year.
This response is silly, and all it takes is a few internet searches to find that AWS, Azure, and Google all have numerous customers doing HPC applications in the cloud. HPC systems have historically been greater than 10% of the revenue of the entire server market. I don't know what you mean by...
Thanks to one of my lurker friends here for pointing out that with liquid-cooled racks replacing an individual server in a rack is a much more involved and specialized procedure than in air-cooled racks. He thinks that might make an entire rack the unit of replacement and potential...
The unit of replacement for servers is typically a rack chassis.
The lifespan of conventional servers in large data centers is typically 4-6 years. AI servers will probably have longer service lives, because they are much more expensive due to higher capacity power supplies and cooling...
I don't know about that. TP Morgan (editor in chief of TheNextPlatform) has been a Gelsinger fanboy for a long time, and published this love note when he came back to Intel. The article is full of inaccuracies and silly opinions, and when I first read it in 2021 I started laughing a few times...
IMO, because it makes the stories more exciting to their non-expert and uneducated audiences to read a story about the mighty falling, and the short projected timeframe to success or failure builds intrigue. Understanding what's really going on with Intel takes considerable knowledge of the...
Yes. Though Intel did have stock ownership requirements at grade 12 (VP) and above, which varied by level, I don't know if they still have those requirements. It is the $25M in 30 days requirement that seemed on the high and quick sides. Nonetheless, LBT's net worth is estimated to be about...
From looking at the Intel Foundry Accelerator web pages, they don't have Synopsys System Solutions Design Services either. Something smells funny on the Intel side.
Oh, come on. I bet this has been in the works for... hours. The Cadence BoD review of their IFS relationship must have gone something like: "WTF? Where are we with our Intel Foundry partnership? Huh? Set up an Intel meeting for yesterday!"
You can tell this was a rush job. Not even time...
Given that Intel CPUs use microcode engines as the instruction processing hardware for most(?) operations, not state machines, I suspect the incremental die space per core for legacy operations is close to zero.
Intel used to have an initiative called X86S, which had the objective of removing...
The number of papers published by those journals in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of papers referenced in the study referenced by this article, is miniscule.
