Recent content by JayNor

If Nova Lake will have the APX and AVX10.2 extensions that are coming also with Diamond Rapids, then it is a big change from Panther Lake. I didn't see Nova Lake mentioned explicitly in the instruction set extension docs, so can't confirm.

Why not compare with Xeon-6? They are available...

I believe APX and AVX10.2 features are still coming in Diamond Rapids.

I suppose this also means we should expect an Arrow Lake-HX refresh for laptops. Makes sense if the Nova Lake laptop updates are on an end of 2026 schedule.

read Intel's last two earnings call transcripts. CWF has already booted on 18a. It is scheduled for 1H of 2026. Intel will build more wafers of Nova Lake in their own foundries than for Panther Lake, according to MJH. Intel planned to have fab 62 ready to run 18a for this year, but...

The SYCL Joint Matrix Extension appears to offer new life for SYCL/OneAPI, and Intel's Battlemage GPUs will be supported. Info is from the IXPUG presentations, a month ago. They say the same code will run on CUDA, AMD, Intel GPUs and Intel AMX matrix operations on Xeon.

I think they'll get their 50% just from consumers moving up to Xeon workstations. The consumer products are a bit underpowered for the AI applications that appear to be in the early stages of a boom.

The June vlsi highlights pre-release show 18a with a 25% performance improvement vs Intel-3. The decisions of Intel 18a vs TSM processing were likely made a couple of years ago. Looks like new automotive chips are using 18a, so capacity is going to be an issue for a while. Also, assuming...

"...no one would buy anything for years and years ." We're not in a normal upgrade cycle. Better and better AI apps are appearing almost weekly. The new toys will probably require a workstation board and a couple of AI processing cards to take it off-line.

well, if 80% of the die from a wafer are good, I'm guessing Intel products will start moving to their own fabs. They have already said that their yields are appropriate at this stage in the development ... or, at least PG said that. MJH has given it her vote of approval by scheduling the...

It looks to me like desktop updates will require new motherboards in the next few years, anyway, because of the rapidly expanding memory requirements for running AI models. The MBs also probably need to be re-designed to space pcie slots at 2.5x the current spacing, since the current AI...

I wonder how hard her organization was hit by the cutbacks after they had delivered on their 5n4y targets.

Intel will have the two 18a fabs available for the first time in 2024, or perhaps only one of them. They have Intel-4 and Intel-3 up and running, and their Foveros 3d, and have big construction projects in Ohio under way. This was all planned. Looks like they have a leading technology...

Clearwater Forest will have SRAM on the base tile according to Intel's paper. According to Intel, the Sierra Forest sales haven't been what they expected. The 288 core Sierra Forest is in production now, according to the most recent news. A 288 core Panther Lake Xeon chip was somewhere on...

Intel funded much of the research by ASML on EUV. They also had their own internal research on EUV from as early as 2004, according to this article. https://phys.org/news/2004-08-significant-intel-euv-lithography.html I recall Intel was evaluating ASML EUV tools at the same time as others...