Matisyahu's Blog

Just watching the following video – I have to admit a lot of the information that I’m seeing around the internet is rumours but it is interesting to hear just how bureaucratic Intel is relative to AMD – multiple teams working on multiple architectures ends up sounding very much like a needlessly complex organisational structure.

Seeing that the efficiency cores are going to become the basis of the unified core reminds me very much of the days back when the P4 had a pipeline to the moon and back with it’s replacement being created by the Israeli team which was based on the Pentium III which evolved into the Core, the Core 2 – if I remember correctly Core 2 had a 14 stage pipeline which balanced efficiency with scalability. While we’re on the topic of taking a basic core design and building from there, it reminds me very much of Sun Microsystems working on the T1 whose basis was the UltraSPARC II that they built up from there to create the multicore monster (link).

There is also the matter of the nVidia ARM CPU – it’ll be interesting to see whether Windows 11 25H2 brings compatibility for the nVidia ARM CPU and whether Microsoft brings about a nVidia ARM CPU based all in one computer or a mini-pc running Windows 11. There is also the Google event in August where the Pixel 10 and Pixel Watch 4 will be announced – it’ll be interesting to see whether it is made available in more markets or whether instead I’ll grab it through Mighty Ape.