Intel is having a rough time of it lately, AMD appears to have finally been able to reap some benefits from their MOAR CORES strategy while at the same time Intel's planned 10nm die shrink appears stillborn and as if being stuck on the same 14nm architecture from 2015 wasn't bad enough they're not even able to move enough parts to fill demand.
AMD's zen 2 line is likely no more than six months away from release, the probability that they will surpass intel in terms of raw IPC are slim and the OC headroom simply does not reach as high but if Intel don't get their shit in order it's really just a matter of time.
At this point whats the likelihood 10nm frustrates Intel to the point they simply try their luck with 7nm instead?
ARM is the future, x86 is on life support at this point
Brody Campbell
They are getting fucked, hard. 7nm Ryzen processors will (in all likelihood) be able to clock at ~4.8GHz, or at least the equivalent of the 3700X will. Zen+ processors with 3200 memory actually have an advantage in IPC over Intel, what makes Intel better is their clock-speeds and that advantage is going away. Too big to fall? Not at all.
Total undocumented proprietary garbage. Even when we get RISC-V, x86 will still be the only option for workstations. Yes, POWER9 exists, but you can't do much with it.
Dominic Green
web browsers and servers in the fabric
Jayden Ward
ARM has it's own issues. Sure you can get a low clocked many core processor (I am talking 16-96 cores here, idk if it scales more than that right now), those cores generally clock low (~2GHz) and then you have to deal with kernel support. I know of at least one company who supports UEFI so that's pretty cool.
Adrian Rodriguez
Intel spent way too much of its energy on cramming more and more spyware and "oopsie totally not intentional" vulnerabilities into its CPUs and not enough on making them faster.
This is a corporate culture problem and it can't be solved because they spend hundreds of millions on shitty diversity programs to hire underqualified niggers. Heck they spent $100 million on Will.I.AM's promotional campaign so black people would buy computers instead of getting free Obamaphones.
I blame China, whom Intel is obviously in bed with.
Colton Cooper
You are conflating architectures with the rest of the ecosystem. There are also plenty of different ARMs, I have all the documentation that I need for tinkering every ARM based system that I own except one of my odroids. It's the soc makers that are the cancer in arm I'm afraid. There is nothing more wrong with any of the POWER isas than probably any other risc, save maybe for paired singles living too long. I'd love to roll my own shit for one of those talos boxes, but I can't afford to plop that kinda a cash for hobby shit.
Tyler Peterson
Meanwhile IBM is selling 5.2ghz 14nm CPUs right now with the z14 for mainframes and the next version of POWER will probably clock in at around 5ghz using 10nm. And that would be the base clock rate not turbo or boost speed, the POWER8 from 2013 was able to go up to 5ghz. This is thanks to their silicon on insulator design that's very different compared to how typical CPU are made.
There's a lot you can do with POWER9, most of the issues on getting chrome and firefox to work on it have been dealt with and compiler support has been improving. It's still years away from a novice being able to replace his x86 desktop with one and not running into major problems but progress is being made.
