Intel Delays Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPU Production To Q1 2022 (crn.com) 29
Intel has delayed production of its next-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs, code-named Sapphire Rapids, to the first quarter of 2022 and said it will start ramping shipments by at least April of next year. From a report: The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company disclosed the delay in a Tuesday blog post by Lisa Spelman, head of Intel's Xeon and Memory Group, who teased the CPU's new microarchitecture as well as two features that will be new to the Xeon lineup: the next generation of Deep Learning Boost and an acceleration engine called Intel Data Streaming Accelerator. Spelman said Intel is delaying Sapphire Rapids, the 10-nanometer successor to the recently launched Ice Lake server processors, because of extra time needed to validate the CPU.
vapor (Score:2)
So vaporware in a move to not entirely lose the sever market to EPYC parts?
I bet the ship date slips again.
Re:vapor (Score:5, Informative)
Vaporware - that word 100% definitely does not mean what you seem to think it means. Given Intel's history of product releases, you would have to be an absolute moron to believe they are stringing people along on a product that doesn't exist and won't exist.
This is called a produce delay, missing a release date, etc... As for losing the server market, good luck to AMD competing with literally everyone else to make enough chips at TSMC to even put a fucking dent in it.
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Every product is vaporware until the date when it actually ships.
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Vaporware refers to products that in fact don't exist at all, or if they do, are in some sort of alpha state and not feature complete and highly unstable. A good example of vaporware was Windows "Chicago" (which became Windows 95), which a couple of years before release Microsoft-friendly magazines were releasing "screen shots" of which were in fact artists renderings, mainly so MS could keep developers from abandoning Windows for OS/2.
In this case, I imagine they do have tested prototypes around, but it's
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I guess there are multiple definitions of Vaporware. For me vaporware is advertised and teased product without any near term availability. Vaporware may in fact became actual product eventually and quite often there is prototype to show off, but since the launch date is pushed up constantly the likelihood of ever having a real product diminishes.
Few different definitions from different internet sources:
: a computer-related product that has been widely advertised but has not and may never become available
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You don't want to have the CPU version of Cyberpunk 2077 do you?
Need the extra time to be able to run Windows 11 (Score:1)
Seems like they want to make sure people can run Windows 11 with them!
I joke, I joke....still just bitter my 3 year old 4k PC won't be able to run Windows 11.
Yo Grark
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Is there anything you need from Windows 11 that 10 doesn't have?
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Direct X 12?
I'm sure that will be forced on all games soon enough
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Direct X 12?
DirectX12 is already on Windows 10.
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No, I suspect I'll be on Win10 for the longest time or throw it onto the VM and use one of the pirated version that happily bypass the forced requirements.
Yo Grark
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DirectStorage will be needed for some games, and will make other games run better.
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It probably will but I've no idea why anyone cares or is excited about anything MSFT defecates into the world. Microsoft = bad and to be avoided or contained in VMs where required to make money. You'll have years before W10 support ends so if your machine works fine, why bother "changing" (I do not confuse that with a functional "upgrade")? You lose nothing by not running W11.
You certainly can run WII in a VM to see if you care. Jim Salter on Ars Technica did so on a KVM host using emulated TPM but I've no
Following IBM's path (Score:2)
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Well one thing is certain, Apple's M1 has proven that ARM processors can be made competitive with the x86/64 ecosystem. The world is shifting pretty mightily.
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Or
x86 will mostly belong to AMD.
What happened to Intel ? Seriously. (Score:1)
Re:What happened to Intel ? Seriously. (Score:4, Insightful)
Instead of engineers running the company it changed to business majors. They don't care how the company makes a profit, as long as it does. If they do drive Intel into the ground all the assets will be sold, the top brass will cash out and move onto the next victim.
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AMD made a good processor, that's all.
Intel was skating a very thin line between monopoly and not, and they also knew that their sweet patent deal with AMD will only be there as long as AMD is around. So letting AMD eat their lunch a bit is a good thing to Intel.
Also has a handy side effect of being able to stave off government interest in their business. So while it has the negative of hurting Intel in the short term, it also means no government
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AMD has always made "good" processors. They have rarely made the "best" and both times AMD has significantly bested intel was because of major missteps on the intel side. The first time pushing a proprietary solution to replace the "open" one while simultaneously holding back x86 from transitioning to 64-bit or making some fairly obvious moves made by other players in the industry (integrated memory controllers/etc).
This time around its not that AMD appears to have an over the top fantastic product. Its goo
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Sorry, but Bulldozer was not "good". Nor was Agena. There are others, but both products marked low points in AMD's mainline product development. AMD very nearly went bankrupt in 2016.
New CPUs every year. Everyone vs Intel (Score:2)
AMD and others release new chips every year. It's this year's Intel chip against this year's AMD chip.
What Intel had 10 or 20 years ago *helps* with reputation, but when this year AMD offers better CPUs at lower prices, nobody cares if the P5 used to be king of the hill or not.
Since most processors made in the last several years are ARM, Intel can't even focus on competing with Intel anyway. That might be like the India Buggywhip Company competing with American Buggy Whips Inc.
At the same time, for fab it's
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They had an almost ( so legal ) monopoly. And blew it. How ?!
x86 performance has often flipflopped between Intel and AMD. Not that long ago Intel tripped over with Netburst at the same time AMD produced a winner with it's K8. Then things went the other way when Intel came out with Core and around the same time AMD gave us Bulldozer. Now AMD has the performance crown again with Zen while Intel has struggled with its latest process shrink.
The other battle they're facing now is competing with ARM because of the growth of the mobile space in the last decade that is now s
Love it... (Score:2)
Love seem Intel dying such a slow and painful death.
Still much to see and suffer, Intel.
You need to be forced to sell your headquarters.
Hopefully, the others start paying bribes to dell and the others so they dont carry your garbage.
Thanks for the 4 core hell that I was forced to live, thanks to your illegal practices.
The future belongs to AMD, ARM and RISC-V.
Die Intel Die!
Except that the RISC-V future is Intel's future... (Score:2)
So watch for it [hackaday.com]