a while back we did an episode focusing on why Intel was suddenly struggling in
its fight against AMD when team blue had long been dominant but as AMD continues
to cut into Intel's market share you can bet that Intel has a plan to strike back
so let's have a look at what we could expect in the near future one major AMD
innovation that has helped keep costs down is its use of chiplets smaller dies
that can be put together in a modular fashion to form a whole processor Intel
continued to stick with more traditional monolithic designs for quite a while
but remember that the electronics industry is full of copycats and even a
company as big as Intel is no different Intel has already
announced that it too will be focusing on using a more modular design similar
to chiplets moving forward which should enable them to lower prices generally
but obviously Intel can't just say see we're doing the same thing as AMD
and expect people to go for it i mean it wasn't exactly a surprise when burger
king's big mac knockoff didn't shatter sales records so Intel is trying to hang
its hat on some of its own innovations you see there's a trend in the
semiconductor industry towards fabulous chip design that is companies like AMD
and NVIDIA design processors but then send them off to a third-party fab like
tsmc to actually have the things made the idea here is that outsourcing the
actual manufacturing is cheaper than running your own fab it also reduces
delays in manufacturing problems because outside fabs tend to be very good at
manufacturing many different types of chips efficiently
and even though Intel is reportedly using tsmc for its upcoming desktop
graphics chips at least for the time being
team blue has long operated its own fabs and shows no signs of changing course
despite past rumors although Intel's had many well-documented issues trying to
get his 10 nanometer process off the ground it's still banking on its own
fabs and their new 10 nanometer superfin process to improve performance basically
it's a variation on finfet which was explained in this video that allows for
more electrical current and less resistance which should ultimately make
for faster chips Intel claims that this is the biggest
performance sleep they've ever had that doesn't involve actually going to a
smaller manufacturing process in fact they're so confident in their own fabs
that they're actually expanding their capacity and opening what they call
Intel foundry services which will operate as a contract
manufacturer for other companies similar to tsmc
team blue is already targeting electronics industry giants like
qualcomm and apple to be potential future customers for foundry services
which would open up a whole new way to bring in that sweet paper without
focusing only on going head-to-head with AMD but of course they still
are going directly up against team red not
only with their chiplets but with the elephant in the room we haven't
discussed their new z hpg graphics
platform Intel's first significant foray into discrete graphics cards in
i think literal decades its first product looks like it'll be a
mid tier card that could go up against an rx 6700 xt or NVIDIA's rtx 3060 so it
could end up being yet another way Intel will try to compete on price
and with the current GPU shortage worldwide there's a possibility that the
super high demand for existing gpus could push gamers to try out Intel's
offering provided they find a way to make enough supply available and
speaking of graphics Intel has already publicly said laptop gaming is going to
be a huge focus with the goal being for lower power z variants to deliver
playable frame rates and big name titles even on thin and light notebooks of
course it remains to be seen how these moves will work out for Intel but you
can bet they aren't taking AMD's challenge lightly you could say they're
even rising to it
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