Recent content by MXM0

Userbenchmarks answers this question in a pretty resounding, thousands-of-tests manner. Outside of gaming, or other apps which need huge swaths of cache, it's the Intel chip, and at half the actual retail price, even if the MSRP is closer. AMD really cannot compete with Intel, in this regard...

A16 isn't due until like 2027. They are a long, long way behind Intel, with backside power. Moreover, TSMC outright stated that they will not buy a EUV machine until 2030, and will, instead, continue to use DUV multipatterning for N2 and A16. That will yield horrible failure rates , as...

I think you're misinterpreting what I stated. Intel is using 18A for the CPU. Even nVidia is still using N4/N5 for their GPUs. No one is going to shrink a GPU down to 18A anytime soon, and if someone can, and wants to hand Intel huge money to do it, it'd be nVidia. Integrated GPUs are *not*...

This isn't news. Intel has always stated that this is the purpose of the chiplet design since 12th gen. The IO and GPU chiplets, in particular, don't need to be 18A, as yet, so they may as well use cheaper fabs, and use the 18A fabs for the CPUs. A consumer "Panther Lake" or "Nova Lake", will...

I believe the TSMC N2 SRAM density claims were recently disproven in a trade show, where 18A and N2 were shown to have nearly the same density (iirc there was a ~3% difference, but I don't remember which was "better"). 18A does, however, have the advantage of backside power, which, presumably...

I suspect AMD continues with Zen 3 because the chips are much cheaper to make than Zen 4 and Zen 5, and provide more profit, despite (slightly) lower performance. That's something the semiconductor industry will see a LOT more of, going forward. Modern lithography hardware is in the hundreds...

15 Xe2 units reported is odd. No amount of bit-shifting or memory layout changes turn an 18 into a 15, so the report showing that is very suspicious. That sounds like a low-end GPU, like a B380?

Maybe Pat is just impressed, because he's an actual engineer, and is impressed by good work?

I think Intel made the right choice here. Given the nature of how the Internet reacts to reports of failures, etc, without bothering to dive into the details of exactly what the circumstances are, Intel is avoiding some PR nonsense, potentially even created by their competitors, except in...

Lulz. I was so convinced that Sony couldn't be so foolish, as to try and sell a 45% speed boost, when exponential gains are required for anyone to notice, with a 60% price hike behind it. I was wrong, and it's just as funny as I thought.

Why aren't there revised benchmarks with Intel chips, after the OS update? I suspect any job scheduling fix probably wasn't AMD-specific, as AMD's chips are not the oddball, like they were back in the Bulldozer days, with the shared FPUs and weird modules and awful cache ping ponging.

This article's take on Intel's release makes no sense. Intel cannot put a backside power design onto a node that's not designed for it. Just can't. TSMC won't have BSP and GAA until at least 2026 -- that's the whole reason Intel's 20A, 18A, and 14A are exciting. I think they must be...

The mobile CPUs don't have the voltage problem. That's been stated like 1 bazillion times. The only people who pretend its a thing are some incompetent game devs, who want to blame their bad software on the hardware.

The article title is very misleading, although technically correct. High volume doesn't mean they won't be making chips on it -- they will, but only their own products, and products for other customers will follow. Also, not noted is that 18A is a refinement of 20A, which is already running --...

No, you're right. CPUs don't fail in such a predictable manner, especially when failing from voltage issues.