Game, set, match. it's over for Intel. They sat on their asses for too long and now are getting eaten by the previous underdogs.
This shift is great news for literally everyone except Intel's execs' bonus packages.
This shift is great news for literally everyone except Intel's execs' bonus packages.
This article is about TSMC's technical achievements and your comment has not added anything to the discussion, time and again I see this rooting for "underdog" behavior all too the same (just flipped the sides) from 2006. I wrote about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22515546
If you'd like to know what goes into shriking a process node from lithography standpoint, I implore you to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gMdGrVteI
and be in complete utter awe... Tell me if they are "Sitting on their asses"?
Totally agree, back in 2012 Intel, TSMC, Samsung pool together roughly 5 billions of investment [1] in ASML to manufacture the EUV machines needed to manufacture 5nm today.
[1] https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/samsung-joins-as...
Where did you read contemptful? The OP was merely stating a fact that Intel has lost the manufacturing race big time which is hard to refute given TSMC's progress. Sitting on their asses is just a illustrative way of saying that.
It does not mean Intel people were stupid or they didn't appreciate their competing colleagues or that Intel would now be worthless. If anything it just makes more sense for a chip company to focus their efforts on designing chips and outsource manufacturing which basically is a separate business anyway -- unless they happen to have an edge also in that which Intel did have earlier.
So let's not conflate excellent and talented engineers with greedy shady executives whose big PR move was to publish detailed benchmarks on the last-gen AMD literally days before the current-gen AMD dropped.
This is entirely due to Intel's awful management getting in the way. Intel's engineers might be clever, but with shitty management, that can all go to waste.
Intel's management have been sitting on their arses, more or less, when you consider the fact that they've really been dragging their feet in terms of progress.
AMD has made more progress in 3 years than Intel has made in 10...
Intel simply got too comfortable with their monopoly.
Can you educate me?
I’m particularly interested in how management sabotaged the ability to get 10nm to work.