Intel has found a new foundry customer. Netronome said that Intel has agreed to manufacture its flow processors using its 22 nm process.
The production will leverage Intel's 3D Trigate transistor technology that is more and more emerging as a cash cow for the company beyond its own product range. Netronome said that the transistors will "shatter system benchmarks for flow processor performance, power and cost in network and security applications."
The company also said that it will be able to take "full advantage of Intel's tools and proprietary modeling capabilities" and ensure that it has "uninterrupted product supply" as it can count of more than just one fab as production facility. Intel and Netronome did not release any numbers that would indicate production volume of network flow processors.
Netronome is the third foundry deal for Intel. Previously, Tabula and Achronix announced that their FPGAs would be manufactured by Intel in a 22 nm process. It appears that Nvidia would also be interested in having Intel produce its chips. Intel, however, declined and said that it has no intent helping its rivals.
Seeing as they've been posting record profits and growth for several years in a row now (I think close to a decade), I think you've long since missed the window.
Seeing as they've been posting record profits and growth for several years in a row now (I think close to a decade), I think you've long since missed the window.
Also in that picture what version of QDR? and will it be able to go above 1333MHz for DDR3?
now @ Prey Intel will most likely not go up anytime soon until this comes out and bees a hit in the market for whatever reason. still with QDR what market are they aiming for?
Nvidia is not competing with Intel in the aftermarket gpu area. btu intel is smart, they know cloud computing and tablets/phones used as a one portal devices through things like the asus transformer series are going to keep coming, intel has thier mobile area where they are competing with Tegra 3, even if they only made Nvidia GPU and not thier Tegra chips the added benefit of the node shrink for Nvidia would likely result in more R&D money for Tegra which harms Intel. it is a smart call
What's even more interesting is that investors outlook on intel stock is that it's high right now. They think that competition with Arm and the emerging markets such as tablet/mobile processors are not a strong place for Intel.
I think the investors are wrong, it blows my mind how Apple shares can be so high while Intel and MS shares are priced equivalent to sliced bread. Whatever!
Well, the only option left is to wait around for Intel to repeat the Netburst fiasco and short-sell their stocks.
intel has billions, they could make GPUs (or cookies or anything they want) easily
This.
The only reason Intel isn't a giant in the GPU market is because it's a niche market and doesn't interest them.
Face it, the average user doesn't need an HD7970, when an Intel HD integrated solution does the job just fine.
They are paying out a pretty nice dividend every quarter. 21 cents a quarter right now.
Dave: "OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS HAL!!!!!"
But they don't.
Which is kind of weird actually.
Part of being CEO is to know when you can say what you want, and when you can't, and just take the high road rather than embarrass your company. If I were running Intel, I would never deal with this ass-clown. Maybe when he acts like an adult, and a CEO, Intel might talk to him.
I'd be much less surprised if Intel did fab work for AMD instead. At least they have a grown-up running the company.