They were never a PC company, they are electronics companyIntel have signalled repeatedly that they are no longer a PC company; by 2020, I believe that they will have a fraction of the notebook market. Presumably, they have used cash-flow from the PC business to fund development of new generations of micro-code and production process nodes; without substantial profits from PCs, I cannot understand how they will fund new designs and processes. They seem to be transforming into a totally different company to the classical Intel, sans mobile and PCs.
They were never a PC company, they are electronics company
But they've been the mfgs of the primary source of the heart and soul of the IBM-compatible PC since it existed.
Sure.Are you aware that Intel fabs are more advanced than samsung, glofo and tsmc combined?
Yep, and they will still be, the fact that last year PC sales dropped few percent down encouraged almost everyone online to predict nearby apocalyptic future where all those billions computers on this planet become inferior niche technology and will be replaced by phones and tablets and if intel does not do anything, they will go bankrupt in a week!But they've been the mfgs of the primary source of the heart and soul of the IBM-compatible PC since it existed.
Oh I forgot to mention, ARM mobile SoCs are also designed on those evil and inferior bulky desktop PCs.
It doesn't, it was only meant to describe that technological gap between other companies and Intel is much bigger than other semiconductor companies have between each other. Since they all are making much simplier chips than Intel, they can stack up and still be far less advanced than Intel is, that doesn't mean they are not important or their products are not important, they are, very however that's not what I meant either.Can someone please tell me how the word combined has any real meaning here?
That's not what I was referring to, but ok, those are server CPUs, so such a workstation would be very likely similarly sized or larger than a x86 desktop PC. If it executes different instructions is not so important in this regard, all these forum threads are more focused on form factor rather than actual instruction sets. I do refer to x86 because it's most common.You can probably design ARM CPUs and SOCs on computers made out of ARM processors also. Nevermind that POWER 8 should do anything and everything X86 does, but even better. Why buy a X86 computer when you can buy a POWER 8 computer?
It doesn't, it was only meant to describe that technological gap between other companies and Intel is much bigger than other semiconductor companies have between each other. Since they all are making much simplier chips than Intel, they can stack up and still be far less advanced than Intel is, that doesn't mean they are not important or their products are not important, they are, very however that's not what I meant either.
If it executes different instructions is not so important in this regard, all these forum threads are more focused on form factor rather than actual instruction sets.
It will be interesting to see how long the timer runs before anyone catches up when Intel introduces Tunneling FETs or spintronics in 2019/2020 at 7nm.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/05/02/why-intel-corp-may-eventually-go-fab-less.aspx
My guess would be the opposite, actually- Intel could spin off the CPU business, and go full on foundry.
The porting you have to do just once, so who cares if it has benefit in the long term (if Intel maintains process lead).Given how great Intel's foundry efforts have gone so far (you even correctly identified it as "kiss of death" for companies to try to port their IP to Intel process), this is a no go. After all, why do you think Stratix 10 from Altera is about a year behind schedule? Why do you think that Apple chose Samsung/TSMC for A9 instead of Intel?
The first shoe dropped with the 14nm node, and I think that 10nm will be just as bad, if not worse.
Given how great Intel's foundry efforts have gone so far (you even correctly identified it as "kiss of death" for companies to try to port their IP to Intel process), this is a no go. After all, why do you think Stratix 10 from Altera is about a year behind schedule? Why do you think that Apple chose Samsung/TSMC for A9 instead of Intel?