The Intel Execution in [2025]
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Poor timing and design decisions.
With Mediatek moving to designs with all big cores it's getting to the point where x86 isn't much of a problem any more for mobile either. As for Xeon Phi, CU/SM's in GPUs aren't small enough that using x86 for the scalar processing is a significant overhead ... it was how Intel decided to design the rest of the processor which made it impossible to compete with GPUs. Narrower SIMD, less SMT, strict coherence etc ... that killed the computational density, not x86.
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I think this is partly a x86 problem, because some of these decisions probably was at least partly due to some limitations of x86. For example, x86 only had 8 GPRs, so SSE also has 8 registers, but since SSE is a completely new set of instructions, they don't really need to have only 8 registers, but yet Intel still made it with only 8 registers. They probably think it's better this way as some decoding hardwares can be reused or something.
It's only later with VEX encoding they are able to support 3-operand instructions and with EVEX to extended the number of registers to 32. They could do this earlier, but I think the baggages of x86 still shows in mnay places.
Potato Head
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Does Timothy Arcuri know there’s no such thing as short term chip design?
DegustatoR
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Intel Reportedly Cancels Its High-End Xe2 Arc Battlemage "BMG-G31" GPUs
Intel has reportedly canceled its high-end Xe2-based Arc Battlemage "BMG-G31" GPUs which were going to be used in gaming graphics cards.
wccftech.com
what does PPA stand for?
on a different note...,
Intel's board gets industry-focused as three directors will not seek re-election — badly needed shift to deeper tech experience
Intel's board gets industry-focused as three directors will not seek re-election — badly needed shift to deeper tech experience
More microelectronics, fewer healthcare professionals in Intel's board.
Performance per area
Potato Head
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Performance Power Area
Talk about clickbait. It's all based on Reuters which is based on The Informations anonymous sources.
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DegustatoR
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List of Intel manufacturing sites - Wikipedia
They do seem to have the majority of assembly and testing facilities in Asia though.
Anyway I'm fairly certain that US semi companies out of all such companies will be able to get tariff exemptions (temporal or permanent).
Yea if not I wonder how difficult and how long it would take to get assembly and testing facilities built up in the usa.About 80% of Intel fabs are in the USA. That goes to about 90% if we add Israel.List of Intel manufacturing sites - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
They do seem to have the majority of assembly and testing facilities in Asia though.
Anyway I'm fairly certain that US semi companies out of all such companies will be able to get tariff exemptions (temporal or permanent).
arandomguy
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Goods that are classified as semiconductors are exempt from the recent round of tariffs.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares National Emergency to Increase our Competitive Edge, Protect our Sovereignty, and Strengthen our National and Economic Security
PURSUING RECIPROCITY TO REBUILD THE ECONOMY AND RESTORE NATIONAL AND ECONOMIC SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that foreign trade and
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But products using semiconductors apparently not, so for example computers aren't, I'm not sure how clear it currently is where they draw the line.Goods that are classified as semiconductors are exempt from the recent round of tariffs.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares National Emergency to Increase our Competitive Edge, Protect our Sovereignty, and Strengthen our National and Economic Security
PURSUING RECIPROCITY TO REBUILD THE ECONOMY AND RESTORE NATIONAL AND ECONOMIC SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that foreign trade andwww.whitehouse.gov
And that’s why markets are tanking. Everyone is parking in cash until there’s clarity on wtf is going on.
arandomguy
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My understanding is that the US just uses a standardized system of import codes so there shouldn't be any confusion on the part of the actual businesses.
For example I believe CPUs are classified under -
Which is listed in this list of exemptions - https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Annex-II.pdf
In addition the following of likely our interest here -
While an assembled computer is under -
Which is not listed in the exemption list
