[girvo]

> The only magic in the wins AMD and Apple have had the last few years have been in them being effectively a manufacturing process node ahead of Intel.

While I mostly agree with that, the fact that Intel are also moving to a chiplet-style architecture that AMD adopted beforehand means I think there is at least _some_ other bits AMD was ahead of Intel on aside from purely the process node.

I'm nowhere near as knowledgeable about this stuff as others, but from my understanding from Dr Ian Cutress' articles and YouTube channel, Intel is somewhat following AMD in this area. I could be misunderstanding, of course.

[easygenes]

No, that's pretty accurate. Though it could be argued that it was only the move to the smaller process node that necessitated a chiplet architecture (as a means of spreading the thermal density, and to improve yield in a more hostile process).

Also, Intel's tiling tech is more versatile than chiplets. Though AMD is adopting TSMC's SoIC, which should be comparable. https://www.hardwaretimes.com/intel-believes-its-tiles-are-a...