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Intel says it has found a way to solve CPU R & D challenges and will return to leadership

 After returning to the high-performance CPU market in 2017, AMD relied on Intel's Ryzen and Xiaolong processors in the desktop, notebook and server markets to put a lot of pressure on friends Intel, especially after the introduction of 7nm Zen2 architecture processors this year. AMD is leading both in performance and craftsmanship for the first time.

 
Compared with AMD, Intel has made many I fans incomprehensible. The 14nm processor has been introduced generation after generation. Although 10nm technology has been mass produced this year, it is mainly used for low-power notebooks. Performance processors, which will not be released until next year, when AMD will launch a Zen3 processor with 7nm EUV process?
 
Intel has the most advanced CPU technology on the planet. Why is it slow to respond to AMD competition? I am afraid that everyone wants to know this. Murthy Renduchintala, senior vice president and chief engineer of Intel, gave an explanation when he attended the UBS TMT technology conference.
 
According to Murthy Renduchintala, one of Intel ’s biggest challenges when developing a native single-chip processor is to not only integrate the logical core IP, but also consider the issues of signal and analog IP, and connect these IP units. Unit circuit.
 
The problem doesn't stop there. These signal, analog and connection units do not benefit from advanced processes, so 50% of Intel's annual budget is spent on porting these technologies.
 
From the explanation of Murthy Renduchintala, everyone should understand the reason why each generation of Intel's CPU architecture must be combined with a fixed process, because Intel's model is to customize different architectures for different processes. The advantage is that each generation of processors has Can play the best performance, the disadvantage is that this is too inflexible, once the process is delayed, it will affect the entire processor upgrade plan.
 
Fortunately, Intel has solved this problem. Murthy Renduchintala said that they have found a way to decouple the CPU architecture from the process technology and can do it at different paces, so that the product roadmap upgrade is much faster.
 
However, Murthy Renduchintala did not disclose detailed plans. There is no exact information on how to decouple and when to release a new generation of high-performance processors.
 
With Intel's description, everyone should now be able to understand why AMD separated the CPU core from the IO core in the 7nm Zen2 processor. The difficulty Intel said is also the difficulty of AMD. The IO part is very difficult to handle. AMD ’s The approach is to separate the two, let the CPU use the advanced 7nm process, the IO core can use 14 / 12nm process, and Intel will sooner or later go this way.

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