end of Intel?

They used to be very good at making chips, till they fell on their faces at the 10-nm node.

A generally unpleasant outfit to deal with.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Don't forget Atom!

Their discrete GPUs offer pretty good bang for the buck at the low end. These $179 cards are amazing for the price, particularly for video production work and trans coding:

They could probably have a good bite of AMD and Nvidia's lunch if they tried but they're only about 1% of the GPU market share right now, and seem to be pretty unfocused about what direction they want to go in.

x86 was a primitive dog of an architecture that Intel applied a ton of complexity and process to. RISC makes more sense, and Intel is behind on process now.

Imagine a CPU that allows stack overflow to punch a hole in code space. Imagine executing data.

Intel was a branch of The Traitorous Eight, a founding member of the treacherous Silicon Valley culture.

Fairchild Semiconductor was remarkably productive and spawned a number of very successful companies - Intel and National Semiconductor and later Linear Technology come to mind.

The move fast and break things culture has its weaknesses, but Silicon Valley is one of its success stories.

Is Microsoft the next Intel?

The 432 and HPPA were super-CISC architectures, lots of microcode, and were slow. I think they were born of the core memory concept that main memory is slow. Neitheher seemed to be designed by people who believed Moore's Law, specifically that ram and cache would continue to get denser and faster.

Intel had an ARM license and didn't use it. They should have done a CPU with one x86 core and a dozen ARMs.

The new Pi Pico chip has both ARM and RiscV cpus. Same idea.

I suspect their top management sabotaged anything that wasn't x86.

I'm hoping that Microsoft is the next Blockbuster.

Not really - the IBM System/38 was doing what the 432 was trying to do and actually shipping. It was object oriented, had capability based security, and tagged memory. It lived on for decades as the AS/400 and later iSeries.

Intel did make ARM network processors - the IXP425 series were a great product at a very decent price, must have been around ~2004 - I designed multiple products with these, one of which nearly ran for 10 years.

However, just like in other cases (anyone remember the LXT97x ethernet PHYs?), after a good start, they apparently lost interest, missed new features and then dropped off the product line. We switched when Intel missed the change from PCI to PCIe on the IXP series.

cu Michael