Does anyone know of a good article that explains why intel is having these problems with crappy 5 year old CPUs? Is 10nm going to be competitive with AMD when it finally comes out?
The Intel part is on top of every single-threaded benchmark in this article, with a 5-year-old microarchitecture. Whatever you want to say about their failure to scale out the core count or to shrink the lithography, they are still in an enviable position of being able to spend the massive lead they had banked. What's going to be really interesting from here on is the cadence of innovation from both camps. Will Intel ship real product and leap ahead again? Will they ship a new product that's a turd? Will AMD ship another generation of improvements while Intel grinds out another Skylake SKU?
Considering we've been hearing that story for the last 5 years (and they have 10nm now, just apparently not at a volume/price point Intel is happy with), I wouldn't bet on 10nm turning things around for Intel. In the most optimistic scenario for Intel, AMD will be talking about 5nm by the time Intel can stop talking about 14nm.
For servers, maybe. I don't think it will be for frequency-bound tasks (even with the increased IPC). Intel expects to be in a better position when they ship their 7nm node in a couple years.
