Quote from: Duff Harris on December 14, 2020, 20:22:36Good competition spurs you on. That doesn't necessarily mean you won't play dirty. Do you think all people who welcome a fight are fair players? They might believe all tools are fair game. After all, they're no longer on a kinder garden's yard. There are billions at stake. And very fat paychecks.
Considering how they treated AMD for years I don't think they "welcome" competition.
Quote from: S.Yu on December 14, 2020, 17:44:35I doubt that was their plan. They really screwed up in manufacturing. That they still have 14 nm mainstream consumer parts in the pipeline is ridiculous. And they clearly have their own ideas about how should processors look like which differ from AMD. It doesn't really look like we'll see an 8 core ULV chip from them anytime soon unless it's a hybrid design. And a 16 core consumer desktop chip doesn't look likely either (or even a 12 core, given that they appear to plan to replace 10 core 10900 with 8 core 11900). iGPU is really the only aspect where they went after AMD. But only in the case of 4 core processors.
Sounds like tough talk, if they're really paranoid Skylake couldn't have been recycled for so many years.