What I meant was that past is often looked as more positive it really was, just like how 14nm was said to be awesome and same with Skylake, when some of us didn't think Skylake was super impressive on the day of launch nevermind 5 years after release date. For me Skylake was "meh" and 14nm overall was disappointing. I didn't think 22nm was impressive either - after all they used all the performance gains for Atom anyway.
I think both Intel's big advantage and detriment was the isolation. All its foundry advances stood alone simply due to the fact even if somebody wanted nothing compared, since nothing comparable existed. During IFS 1.0 Intel was sitting on its high horse exactly because its foundry was the best and nothing compared, so external companies naturally were expected to adapt to Intel's internal quirks. That's why a newly competitive AMD using TSMC's competitive node was such a groundbreaking event. Barely anybody would have cared about TSMC's node if AMD's chips using it wouldn't directly show how much more efficient TSMC is with x86 is than Intel's so far. And that's why a major target of Intel is to reach performance-per-watt parity with TSMC by 2024.
Maybe Apple themselves had no idea of the volume. They must have given Intel some number that Otellini didn't consider worth their while. Also, being as proud as Intel is, he probably thought no one else could supply the volume Apple wanted.
Either it's too little or it's too much, can't be both at once.
They are having issues validating their whole stack, they have issued multiple Pre-production steppings to try to fix them, but they are still not production ready. Intel first try at Chiplets are harder than expected. If they iron these issues they will have better results for Emerald Rapids.
How I wish there to be a post-mortem for these kinds of stuff. There must be a lot of stories behind this many very likely unvoluntary steppings.
Hey, at least the CPU Coolers are already available
CPU coolers for Intel Sapphire Rapids coolers listed on Newegg Intel Sapphire Rapids coolers may already be on Newegg, but shipments of new Xeon CPUs is reportedly delayed to Q2 2023. The CPU coolers for LGA4677 socket used by next-gen Xeon Scalable processors can already be found on Newegg. The...
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It's like with Aurora: The supercomputer is done, everything is prepared, just need to plug in the SPR CPUs to start up.
Which reminds me, my impression so far is that SPR is doing worse than PV which as a package seems vastly more complex. Is PV actually faring better, or is it just SPR getting the news?
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