Well. Intel did what folks thought they were going to do ----- they made a low performance boost "refresh" for first quarter 2024 using the same old Intel lithography, just bumping it up some in input power and in processor heat produced.
An 8% performance "improvement" which is about what the rumors last month had painted.
Next Intel generation after this one will supposedly have more cores per processor and will have at least some of the cores being actually made at TSMC.The rub for that generation is that AMD already has enough performance to equal or beat it currently right now ........ but by then AMD will have released their own big little format of their very own and AMD have a significant core count increase and have racked up a performance upper
twice over by then.
Intel is saying they will have new stuff in 2025 right now, but that new stuff always seems to get delayed and discontinued, it being Intel and all .......
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There is a massive shift in PC land, away from traditional desktop formats towards the little box format.
The mobile laptop format combined processors from AMD and Intel are now where most of this combat is taking place.
These tend to show up in laptops and the mini box PC formats, with performance that is going to lap up over the older generations of desktop gaming PCs.
Both AMD and Intel have this out there now so please be careful in your reading to make sure if you are treading on the APU turf or the desktop gaming turf .......
Intel can only break into the top area of the charts group for a very short period of time using their "best cheat of the moment" tricks,
but Intel will do this periodically no matter whatever it takes to claim the throne no matter how brief that moment is.We are at a changeover point now, choked with old box units being sold off for cheap as both players upgrade their wares very quickly.
AMD is following their published roadmaps, making up new generations of chiplets for mainframe that then get rolled into waves of ever better APU chipsets.
Intel is using daughter boards and "added feature" tricks to stay in the race.
Beware of what Intel is actually shipping as they are intentionally scrambling up their processor names to hide what they are up to.
Intel is mostly out of big fab building money now and is more or less and is falling further and further behind in their technology.
Intel is teaching us that adder sub-systems to make up for processor lacks can equal the other guy's real processor improvements, and that AI is necessary for your computing happiness.
AMD is based on TSMC and runs off of real progress, but Apple has locked up all the best TSMC production at the moment which is slowing AMD's progress at the moment.