Intel: An Update -- November 9, 2024

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November 11, 2024: Intel's biggest threat? ARM?

November 11, 2024, AMD head-to-head with Intel (they both do the same thing --CPUs):

• AMD shipments are up 15% Q/Q, vs
• Intel shipments fell 3%, and worse,
• ARM adoption is increasing -- with server unit unit share reaching 7% in 3Q24.

November 11, 2024: link here.

Ticker today:

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Previously posted with an update:

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Meanwhile, The Mess Over At Intel Continues

Link here.

A Linux patch suggests that Intel engineers plan to implement a feature that tags your system as vulnerable if you're running outdated microcodes, (via Phoronix). This comes in light of the recent Intel 13th Generation and 14th Generation degradation fiasco, which is now pushing Team Blue towards a class action lawsuit.

The patch argues that you cannot run a system with old microcode and consider it safe. Microcode is basically a set of instructions in the CPU that can be updated post-launch to fix critical flaws and security vulnerabilities. The patch proposes that users should be informed clearly and concisely that their PC is potentially unsafe - marking the system as vulnerable or not vulnerable. The author calls to report this vulnerability in "/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/old_microcode", so that a single file can be used to prompt the user to update their microcode.

Update, Saturday, November 9, 2024: with regard to the "mess over at Intel," link here:

Or, direct to The Verge.

From the linked article:

Reviews of Intel’s new Arrow Lake-based Core Ultra 9 200S-series processor have been lackluster, specifically when it comes to gaming performance, but Intel says that’s not the end of the story.

Its new chips should be performing better, and the company will have an ETA on getting them there soon, according to Robert Hallock, Intel’s VP and GM of client AI and technical marketing, in a new interview with HotHardware’s Dave Altavilla and Marco Chiappetta.

Intel was up-front in saying these new chips wouldn’t beat AMD’s chips for gaming. But reviewers’ findings have been unexpectedly poor. Despite some efficiency gains like those noted in Tom Warren’s Verge review of the Core Ultra 9 285K, the new chip seems to lag behind even Intel’s earlier Raptor Lake chips in gaming. That’s to say nothing of its performance versus AMD’s very good Ryzen 9800X3D.

It will be interesting to see if analysts read these reports.

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