Report: Intel to Increase Ivy Bridge Production Share to 70%
Of course, there is good reasoning, as Intel has to drive the economics of scale through its 22 nm processor, which will be succeeded by Haswell in Q2 2013. Intel's tick-tock cadence, which foresees a die-shrink in uneven years and a new architecture in even years, is clearly behind the promise Intel gave back in the 2005/2006 time frame, so it wouldn't (and shouldn't) be too surprising to see a slight speed-up in processor lifecycles.
German publication HT4U reported that 70 percent of Intel's processor production in the fourth quarter will be Ivy Bridge models. There was no official confirmation for this number, but given Intel's announcement during the Q2 earnings call that Ivy Bridge production had crossed the 50 percent mark, the 70 percent estimate sounds reasonable and perhaps even a bit conservative. Considering the pressure for the PC market to regain traction and produce appealing devices for Windows 8, anything less than a 75 percent share for Ivy Bridge by the end of the year would be disappointing.
Innovation shouldn't be dictated solely by competition. While competition did drive Intel to dump netburst and create it's successful Core2 line, if competition were the only factor propelling new CPU technology, we might never have gotten out of the 486 days.
Innovation shouldn't be dictated solely by competition. While competition did drive Intel to dump netburst and create it's successful Core2 line, if competition were the only factor propelling new CPU technology, we might never have gotten out of the 486 days.
Regardless of what happens to AMD, Intel still needs to keep moving forward if they do not want to risk a market take-over by ARM64/Android later in the office and HTPC markets.
Fortunately - for now - what this article tells us is that Intel is still being aggressive in updating their lineup. And seeing as how low power Haswell is Intel's strategy for entering the mobile market, it looks like AMD is irrelevant either way.
Intel has to stay on it's toes to try and combat ARM regardless of AMD's poor showing.
Intel has been dropping prices (albeit slowly) and AMD is improving. They'll catch up if Intel doesn't keep improving, so Intel will keep improving too.
2700K and such might have launched about a year ago, but Ivy launched in the end of April whereas Sandy launched in January, so assuming a year between launch and better binned launches, we're a few months off.
No, quite the opposite. Intel was due to introduce the next architecture this year, but they are behind on their promise. This is exactly what the article says too, but I admit it could have elaborated a bit...
Maybe, maybe not. Intel make Medfield, Atom and Itanium CPUs as well as Ivy Bridge.
core2duo/quad series is still available in abundance in my city. wasn't it discontinued some 4-5 years back?
Not sure where you got your business education from but there's that old saying that "competition breeds innovation." Do you honestly think Silicon Valley would be a large community of R&D and tech companies relentlessly trying to outdo each other in terms of innovation if there was only 1 company there? The lack of competition invites complacency.
The reason Intel dumped Netburst was because they realized the Pentium 4 (and its similar Pentium D) architecture had become ridiculously antequated and simply raising the clock speed was not only yielding marginal performance increases but operating temperature was getting out of control hot. At the same time, Intel realized AMD was outgunning them by providing cheaper CPU's that run almost as fast, if not faster and cooler, than their P4 and PD's chips and had to go back to the drawing board.
Regarding the 486 days, I think that was the heyday of CPU's as there was no shortage of competition which included IBM (80XXX series), Motorola, (68000 series), Cyrix, NEC, Chips & Technologies, and of course AMD.
"Innovation shouldn't be dictated solely by competition. While competition did drive Intel to dump netburst and create it's successful Core2 line, if competition were the only factor propelling new CPU technology, we might never have gotten out of the 486 days."
you live in india, the price in rupees for an i7-3770 would be to staggering for most of your countrymen, i do not mean any disrespect, just that economically the demand for those chips else where in the world has fallen significantly enough to make them very appealing price wise to most computer consumers in your piece of the world. they still sell very well on ebay in america at $40 for a core2duo E8400 and $175 for a core2quad 9550 the cheapest i have found i7-3770k is just under $300 tho.
Not really. Intel, in a monopoly, would be crushed by governments worldwide with anti-trust lawsuits. They'd be fined for billions and then be force to pay additional billions to get AMD back on track.
Furthermore, Intel, like many companies in similar situations, simply can't afford to have ridiculous pricing permanently. If they price things badly for a few years, the majority of people will stop buying and high prices or not, Intel will be hurting. Programmers would respond by making more and more optimal code because they'd have no choice to do otherwise, hurting Intel even more as the current AMD FX CPUs get better and better with more well-threaded coding, as does even Intel's current CPUs to a far lesser extent. AMD or other companies either based on AMD or replacing them would be on the rise and Intel would have no choice but to improve.
Basically, Intel must keep going or else they'd fail. They can't stagnate price/performance drops for more than a few years before they start to feel the hurt.
1.) just sold my last AMD unit (980BE + 990X) maybe one day I'll be back.
I remember when they stopped Nehalem to make way for SB.
2.) Intel could stop now with development and AMD will still need 5+ years to catch-up.
also in-store deals in the US, I just went to Fry s and price-matched for a i5-3570K $192 with tax out the door.
3.) I think the government will step in and do something before AMD actually stops operations
I don't think they will get to that point anyways, not with APU's and HD Radeon side of things.
the days of monopolies (this major) like the AT&T vs Bell Systems are far over.
consumers will eventually rise-up and a voice will be heard that leads to governmental call for action.
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4.) Intel prices will drop.!