it’s gonna happen. Intel rested on their laurel’s until AMD released their Athlon 64 CPU’s that actually beat them. the results? all the might / power that Intel held was put into use and they created the beginnings of the Core processors that were an astounding 30 - 40% faster than what AMD had. and then AMD stumbled with their Bulldozer / Steamroller/ etc etc etc, trying out a CPU design that followed the Pentium 4 theory and failed miserably even their top end CPU was often beaten by the lowly i3. buuut…Intel went back to sleep (well, more didn’t prioritize solving the issues with their 10nm designs), and so the cycle starts again. though this time, a lot of other variables are at play.
it was Intel’s misstep on dealing with their 10nm problems that really got them to where they are now. 10nm was supposed to arrive 5 years ago. and in that 5 year spread, Intel had to give AMD a $5 Billion dollar settlement, who the new CEO put to good use. Intel is also suffering because of all the exploits, which suffer from significant performance hits when patches to mitigate are applied. I expect we’ll get a round of predictor vulnerabilities with AMD in the next bit…but Intel was sloppy.
it’s not. TMSC is doing very well…they’ve just started working on the 2nm process as they’ve got the 5 and 5+ spooling up already! using TSMC allowed AMD to focus all their resources into CPU design. they weren’t distracted by other things that would have been like a 1000 cuts.
I do. in fact, I am refurbishing two Mac Pro 3.1’s running dual quad core Harpertown / Penryn CPU’s. despite the fact these CPU’s are 12 years old, they still have more horsepower than the latest / greatest Y mobile CPU’s from Intel. now that’s not exactly something to boast about…except for the fact that with 8 cores, these Mac Pro’s will still be awesome surfing machines.
they’ve both got 32GB of RAM, I’m putting in a 480GB SSD and waiting on some Quadro 4000’s from a customer that’s got em as extra’s. the 8800 GT and x1900XT they came with are rather pitiful. like 10% the performance of the Intel UHD 630 while consuming 100x the power! LoL!
I have me an 9800 GTX that still works haha sometimes, its tempermental all it neeeds is to be blasted in the cooker and it may decide to work again. Hahaha, obviously not being used now but still have it somewhere.
okay, so you weren’t meaning the old Mac’s on RISC. IBM is very invested into their RISC designs…but I haven’t a clue about how their chips are used or who even uses them, other than enterprise level solutions.
on the side, I can’t recall who released it, but someone open sourced their RISC architecture for the community to use. will be interesting to read news about how that progresses and starts moving into notable positions for use and deployment.
