on the planet for mainstream laptops, desktops, and servers for most of the past two decades. Its products represent the default option, the safe choice. Over time, Intel CPUs have become more-or-less synonymous with "the best and fastest CPUs." But Intel hasn't had much luck delivering significant performance gains on a core-for-core basis since Sandy Bridge launched in 2011. Improvements have come incrementally and often relied on SIMD instruction set optimization or specific test cases. So long as Intel faced no meaningful market competition, there was no real argument against the idea that
Intel Is at a CrossroadsAMD says it'll report its server share details later in the year when IDC reports, but the question of AMD's relatively slow ramp in servers comes up practically every conference call, and I'm sure it'll come up again when they eventually publish. What everyone remembers is this graph: What this graph shows is that somewhere between January 2005 and June of 2006, AMD's server market share went from ~5-7 percent to ~22 percent in just 18 months. There are several reasons why AMD isn't repeating that ramp this time around. First, the chart's starting position is incorrect. AMD didn't begin tryin
AMD's Market Share Hits Highest Overall Level Since 2012…This generation is running long in the tooth, so this new hardware is desperately needed to revitalize the market. We still have a lot of unanswered questions from both Microsoft and Sony…
…There are still numerous questions to be answered about how well these services will practically work. Companies have talked up 60GHz wireless connections and insane bandwidth capabilities over short-range connections for…
…But the question of whether Seagate or Samsung deserves credit for largest SSD has been rendered somewhat moot by the claims of another challenger: Nimbus Data and its ExaDrive DC100, with a…
Apple has always relied on some of its biggest competitors for components of its mobile devices. The most notable is Samsung, which it's relied on for the OLED displays in iPhone…
…The cooler in question -- an Hailea water chiller -- is another sign that this CPU has truly mammoth power dissipation requirements. Image Now it's possible that Intel was just hedging its bets…
…Whether these gains could be sustained against dominant players in the market like Qualcomm , Intel , and other companies that would be adopting them as well, is an open question. If history is…
…The assistant will improve with every command given, every question asked and every setting made. Forming the basis for all of this will be the portable, digital customer profile – the BMW ID…
…two complementary rather than competitive, at least from a hardware design perspective. The advent of the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 are bringing ray tracing to market, and RDNA2 GPUs will…
…learning entrants like Amazon for a quickly growing market share, but it can also use DeepMind's insights to improve its own competitive advantage. This week, Google announced (Opens in a new…
…It's an interesting example of how tremendous market success doesn't always create tremendous revenue. There are far more devices shipped each quarter running on ARM CPUs than x86 chips and…