Broken Silicon
97. Intel 3D Stacking, Alder Lake big.LITTLE, Heterogeneous AMD | Dr. Ian Cutress
20 Apr 2021
Senior Editor at AnandTech Dr. Ian Cutress joins Tom to discuss everything Intel vs AMD vs Nvidia. This includes a Postmortem on Rocket Lake, challenges bringing big.LITTLE to windows, and who will be most equipped to win the Heterogenous Silicon Wars of 2025. [SPONSOR: https://www.cdkoffers.com/ For a limited time get 30% TOTAL off on the website!] 20% software discount code: brokensilicon Windows 10 Pro OEM key: https://bit.ly/2vfKucI Office 2016: https://bit.ly/3aBenUX Office 2019: https://bit.ly/2GcGdJn Windows 10 pro OEM +Office 2019 package: https://bit.ly/2Orz0Jx 0:00 Who is Ian? 10:11 The State of Tech Journalism, and the art of good question asking 15:22 Rocket Lake - What did Intel try to accomplish? Did they succeed? 25:11 Alder Lake – Do we think it will succeed? 30:22 Challenges bringing big.LITTLE to Windows x86 43:17 Did Zen 1 Overperform Expectations? 49:41 Jim Keller's Role at AMD & Intel 54:21 AMD Buying Xilinx, Intel Buying Altera, EPYC Milan 1:00:11 The Truth about Supply & Demand Issues in 2021 1:10:50 The Importance of Intel Fabs competing with TSMC 1:17:55 Intel Tiles vs AMD Chiplets, 3D Stacking Architectures 1:30:35 Heterogeneous Architectures vs Silicon Photonics Scaling Outwards 1:37:50 AMD vs Intel vs Nvidia in 2025 - Who will make the best APUs? 1:52:37 Advice for Computer Science & Engineering Students Articles by Ian: https://www.anandtech.com/author/140 Ian's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1r0DG-KEPyqOeW6o79PByw linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iancutress/?originalSubdomain=uk Ian’s RKL: https://youtu.be/oaB1WuFUAtw Tom’s Tweet confirming Ian’s Threadripper question at Hot Chips 2019: https://twitter.com/mooreslawisdead/status/1163569630067040256 Ian’s transcript of the Q&A with Lisa at Hot Chips 2019: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14762/hot-chips-31-keynote-day-1-dr-lisa-su-ceo-of-amd-live-blog-145pm-pt https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amd-xilinx-stockholders-overwhelmingly-approve-164900232.html https://newsroom.intel.com/press-kits/intel-acquisition-of-altera/ https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-xe-hpc-ponte-vecchio-examined Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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