«They now work to what they call process/architecture/optimization, or in more familiar unofficial terms tick/tock/tweak.»
For this cycle it's been tick/tock/tweak/tweak. Sounds like a broken clock.
For this cycle it's been tick/tock/tweak/tweak. Sounds like a broken clock.
They switched to git because free is better (we were a rounding error on a rounding in terms of cost to Intel, the most they ever paid us in a year is .00000004 of their revenue).
But that was too much so they switched to git and it's been downhill for them ever since.
I'm not an idiot, I don't think that the switch to git is the cause of their problems, their problems are self inflicted. I'm just one of many many vendors that Intel has fucked over. So I like seeing them squirm.
Karma is a bitch Intel.
Edit: yup, knew I'd get down voted. Don't care. Try being an Intel vendor and get back to me about how much you like that.
However, as poorly as they treat their vendors, it's nothing compared to what they do to their employees and sadly large segments of their first line and middle management not only buy into that but have spent time making that into an art form.
If you are an Intel vendor you will like this tidbit, they were on our paper. Not their agreement, they agreed to our paper. I think we are the only small vendor that they ever did business with where they didn't force their terms into the deal.
For this cycle the 'tick' (Cannon Lake) was pushed back a year (with two 'tweaks', Kaby Lake Refresh and Coffee Lake, taking its place). Cannon Lake devices are due to be released to the mass market this year, and according to Intel it was able to manufacture some Cannon Lake devices last year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon_Lake_(microarchitecture...
"At CES 2018 Intel announced that they had started shipping mobile Cannon Lake CPUs at the end of 2017 and that they would ramp up production in 2018."