Granite Rapids will sell, no question about it. But Turin will be here shortly, too.

Anyone thinking Granite Rapids doesn’t have a place should take a second look at the 8800MT/sec MCR DIMM support and the per core AMX tiled matrix acceleration. They’re also ready for the CXL 2.0 memory pools that have been talked up for the last few years.

I don’t want to return to Intel hegemony. I just want two foundries and ten chip designers instead of one and one and a half.

I wanted to write this and you wrote better than me, so thanks.
I dont agree with TPM statement “We want Intel to succeed, and we have faith that the IT sector will be better when it does.”
Intel has made the history, but as you wrote for many years has planned and executed illegal activities to prevent customers benefiting from better alternatives.
Now there are better alternatives such as Nvidia and AMD + others in the ARM realm + other companies innovating in the accelerated compute.
I whish AMD can get at least 50% of the CPU and GPU market to balance the odds.
Intel can just become the new IBM, and thanks for all the fish.

“slightly more” perhaps?

This highlights the problem with a company with an extremely successful product line. For a time they’re swimming in cash so it looks like they’ve truly got the golden touch. Unfortunately, like with just about everything else, unless you’ve figured out how to enforce a de facto monopoly you’re only as good as you last big success/win. Especially when you’re on top — you become the target for everyone else to beat.

The inflation should continue to rise as TSM customers will need to pay for more advanced EUV processing, backside power delivery, GAA transistors, hybrid bonding and co-packaged optics if developing chips for three years out.

Xeon competitors will soon need PCIE6/ PAM4 transceivers, CXL 3.0, MCR DIMM support, Ultra Ethernet, AMX tiled matrix processing.

Lunar Lake competitors will need a comparable integrated gaming GPU, WIFI7, h.266 hardware decode, in-package memory. Intel’s integrated Xe2 GPU also contributes to platform AI processing sum of 120 TOPS.

For as long as the x86 market has existed, Intel has played games to punish competitors, charge for performance and try to pull the wool over our eyes. They know about vulnerabilities that they don’t address in a timely manner because addressing them would lose performance, so in essence they’re tricking us with false performance comparisons. Heck, they’re doing that now by saying the motherboard makers are responsible in part for 13th and 14th gen issues, when it’s Intel that can’t give clear guidance, because if they did, they’d lose all the important benchmarks when compared with AMD.

They just don’t seem like the kind of company worth trusting, either in the past or now. They’re a one trick pony, and now that they’ve abused this pony too much, that one trick isn’t even very good any more.

It’s time to move on.

Fair enough, and props for the arms length. I agree it looks like AMD in 2015.