or at least... maybe on the CPU side they were no-drama. Other than C2000/C3000. Granted the powervr graphics on the atoms way back did suck... and meltdown... and avx-512 being rolled back... /phillip j fry counting on his fingers

maybe "blue-chip coded" is a better way to express it ig

but like, there is a notable decline in the quality of execution of intel overall, pretty much across the board, and cpu was always their core vertical, right? That was their business redoubt. intel is blue chip chips, especially CPUs. And now it's falling - really it's been falling for a while. Meltdown I can generally excuse (yes, shush), nobody appreciated sidechannels back then even if they were theoretically known. C2000/C3000 is another fuckup. yeah it's the super-io/serial bus controller... technically not their IP but it happens to be in a critical path, on their node, killing their processor. They fucked up the validation there, evidently.

I-225V had three steppings and I-226V is still not fully fixed (windows/linux have just turned off the EEE/802.11az feature instead). Puma was a god damned mess.

Sapphire rapids was late, still a huge mess, and actually the -W platform had not only insane power draw, but also insaner transients. 750W average, spiking up to 1500W under load, with pretty steep holdup requirements. And actually that was locked behind a "water cooled" bios option, the processor just "refused to all-core turbo" otherwise. And Intel didn't wanna actually say that the "water cooled" behavior was the spec or intentional turbo limits etc. In hindsight hmmm, that all took a bit of a different tone, didn't it?

Supposedly there is going to be a SPR-W refresh with a new stepping to fix this... emerald rapids is also very power-hungry and there were some unconfirmed murmurs suggesting it might have the same crash problems.

(yes, yes, please just listen to the guest here.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HJu5xt43iQ&t=3603s

https://wccftech.com/intel-xeon-w-3500-w-2500-sapphire-rapid...

Intel's in some real danger especially with AMD ascendant like this. Like it doesn't take very long of this real damage to customers etc and that "we're blue-chip!" thing will cease to be, and that is the last prop keeping intel's finances above the water here. Sure, it will take a while to fully wind down but... this is a great example of how intel's fuckups are driving their clients literally into the arms of the competition. A month or two ago, Asrock Rack didn't give a shit about the B650-2L2T or whatever. Guess what? Now Epyc Mini exists and oems are going to be paying attention to that. Oops.