By: David Hess (davidwhess.delete@this.gmail.com), January 25, 2017 9:47 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
none (none.delete@this.none.com) on January 24, 2017 10:48 pm wrote:
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> Isn't Intel now using different masks, interconnects and other elements (L2 caches and AVX-512
> for instance) for their server chips? Does this mean reusing most of their core
> from laptops up to servers doesn't help them anymore? So does this mean the old story
> that Intel is so strong because their server chips are basically the same as their PC chip
> is now obsolete?
Intel already *has* a large server market to support development of very expensive server oriented CPUs but the core design and validation is still shared with their desktop processors which are themselves identical to their low end Xeon processors except for market segmentation.
>
> Isn't Intel now using different masks, interconnects and other elements (L2 caches and AVX-512
> for instance) for their server chips? Does this mean reusing most of their core
> from laptops up to servers doesn't help them anymore? So does this mean the old story
> that Intel is so strong because their server chips are basically the same as their PC chip
> is now obsolete?
Intel already *has* a large server market to support development of very expensive server oriented CPUs but the core design and validation is still shared with their desktop processors which are themselves identical to their low end Xeon processors except for market segmentation.