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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • intel used to only rebrand their large node updates.

    now that TSMC has popularized branding every single node change they make (N5, N5P, N5HPC, N4, N4P, N4X are all variants of N5) and intel is trying to build a foundry business, they’re branding updates to their nodes too instead of just adding pluses. So in the past intel 3 would be intel 4+, intel 18a would be intel 20a+ etc.

    They’re also burning through cash to get them out sooner due to how delayed intel 10nm was. According to their fab director they got a “blank check” to get their fabs back on competitive pace.


  • companies like Apple and AMD have useful gpus in their SoCs, something that Intel is still catching up on. On desktop it’s not that big of a deal but for portables it is a good way to save on power+cost while still delivering adequate performance.

    Also they’re going to be paying to develop these GPU IP blocks anyway, may as well use the IP as much as possible against the competition. Amortize that R&D cost. Arrow Lake will have the GPU segregated from the CPU chiplet also so it’s less likely there will be defects even if they up the GPU size, whereas something like the 13700k is already pretty big on its own even with the small igpu so it would be relatively expensive to slap a good iGPU on there.





  • interesting that intel posters are likely to post in hardware subs in general including AMD, whereas both AMD and Nvidia users are significantly more likely to post here compared to other hardware subs.

    don’t really understand their fascination with spamming this sub in particular. I suppose this explains how this sub went from barely any posts weekly to pretty consistent posts daily and similar ragebait as the AMD and Nvidia subs.