Thursday, January 21st 2021
"Nehalem" Lead Architect Rejoins Intel to Work on New High-Performance Architecture
The original "Nehalem" CPU microarchitecture from 2008 was pivotal to Intel, as it laid the foundation for Intel's mainline server and client x86 processors for the following 12-odd years. Glenn Hinton, the lead architect behind "Nehalem," announced that he is rejoining Intel after 3 years of retirement, to work on a new high-performance CPU project. Hinton states that his decision to rejoin Intel out of his retirement was influenced by Pat Gelsinger joining the company as its new CEO. Jim Keller, a CPU architecture lead behind several commercially-successful architectures, recently left Intel after a brief stint leading an undisclosed CPU core project. Keller later took up the mantle of CEO at hardware start-up Tenstorrent.
Pat Gelsinger leading Intel is expected to have a big impact on its return to technological leadership in its core businesses, as highlighted in Gelsinger's recent comments on the need for Intel to be better than Apple (which he referred to as "that lifestyle company") at making CPUs, in reference to Apple's new M1 chip taking the ultraportable notebook industry by storm. The other front Intel faces stiff competition from, is AMD, which has achieved IPC parity with Intel, and is beating it on energy-efficiency, taking advantage of the 7 nm silicon fabrication process.
Sources:
bizude (Reddit), Dylan Martin (Twitter)
Pat Gelsinger leading Intel is expected to have a big impact on its return to technological leadership in its core businesses, as highlighted in Gelsinger's recent comments on the need for Intel to be better than Apple (which he referred to as "that lifestyle company") at making CPUs, in reference to Apple's new M1 chip taking the ultraportable notebook industry by storm. The other front Intel faces stiff competition from, is AMD, which has achieved IPC parity with Intel, and is beating it on energy-efficiency, taking advantage of the 7 nm silicon fabrication process.
46 Comments on "Nehalem" Lead Architect Rejoins Intel to Work on New High-Performance Architecture
Also, Nehelam spelled backwards is rooster.
Still one a core i7 950 inside my laptop, and it shows its age compared to what we have now....
If One its leading architects comes out of retirement to "work with intel" again for a "high performance" architekture, you realized the shiet theyve been pushing for the past decade.
Which is what ive been bambling all along, Minimam generation performance increments, and once AMD flexed their muscle tired of their shiet(intels shiet), intel entered panik mode.
Intel: "we need to get our shiet together guys"
Intel2 : "faq, what the faq do we do, we cant build cpus!"
intel3: "i know what, we hire nehalem arhitect to build as a cpu"
intel2 "but hes retired"
intel3: "we gief him a shittonn of money - we sucked more than enough from plebs and enterprises during the "milk-era", he wont have a choice but to come out of retirement"
intel1: "good point people, good jub, make it so"
Then we hear this news on TPU
Getting rid of the GPU doesn't magically free up power budget or space for more cores.
The 10900 and 10900K literally stretched the ringbus to its limits and the core to core latency was already showing the strain.
So the same person behind nehalem, might be what Intel needs. To move on to something game changing again. Cause let's be honest. Intels releases after nehalem and Sandy bridge has not been what I will call impressive.
Honestly for now, I am more impressed what AMD has come from and to with there zen chips.
They have not even touched the cache subsystem at all (just increased L3 size for higher core counts). They are finally doing that with Rocket Lake, but it is still just an increase in L1 and L2 sizes.
If you match a Comet Lake CPU core count, clock speed and memory speed to a Nehalem CPU, you will get marginally better performance after 12 years. Crazy.
Right now they are stuck not only on the same architecture, but also the same manufacturing process, which is why there has been zero progress made since 2015 Skylake.
Hopefully all these personnel changes will help. They really need some big changes. Thank God for AMD, they finally made Intel wake up.
It is good news in general as it shows Pat is already reforming Intel and bringing good people back into the company but personally Keller would have been my target to finish what he started.
Meanwhile, i5 700s and i7 800s were stalemating Core 2 Duos and Quads, respectively (nevermind higher TDP), the latter on bog-priced 775s with DDR3 already because FSB+DMI could still punch DMI 2.0 in the face, but "OMG we have Hyperthreading again", except half the world was still on WinXP so whatever, and it was only when Sandy came around (and Windows 7) that that changed (then the 2500K and 2600K became the staple).
If this guy is going to bring anything worthwhile, is to shove all links to older uArchs to the trash and start from scratch, as AMD had to do with Summit Ridge.
there simply so much force that won't allow intel failing
I am an Intel fan for sure, but.. AMD is on to something too..
Looking forward to see what these guys can do!
I have a feeling I will only be on AM4 for a year.
www.legitreviews.com/intel-core-i7-950-3-06ghz-quad-core-processor-review_1484/15
www.anandtech.com/show/2658/20
www.legitreviews.com/gigabyte-x58a-ud7-motherboard-review_1210/8
www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/gax58usb3/
Hi-End 1366 mobo for 350$ + 950 for 330, or "cost effective" 1366 for 200 + 920/930 for 240 (300 on release). And just a year before 775 mainstream mobo for 140$ or high-end for 250 + 8500/9550 for 300$. 1156/1155 was about the same as mentioned 775 platform.
And everyone who invested in x58 could use today with some upgrades, and its still capable. unless you want 300+FPS 4K HDR RTX Ultra detail AAA gaming experience of lootboxes and poor netcode.
Sandy Bridge is when they started locking everything away under K SKUs and P/Z chipsets. The only great thing about this architecture was high clock speeds. It just went downhill from there.
Sure Sandy Bridge was peak Intel, but that doesn't diminish Nehalems impact.