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Gelsinger isn't shy about criticizing his company. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger spoke about three big mistakes and failures of the company. [caption id="attachment_79812" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Intel[/caption] The head of Intel called processors for smartphones the first such failure. Recall that Intel has been releasing Atom platforms for Android smartphones for some time, and these platforms have generally been quite competitive. They never became widespread, but there were even flagships based on Atom. True, the story did not last long. The first smartphone with such a SoC was released in 2012, and the direction was closed in 2016. These are three huge mistakes and failures of Intel. Gelsinger also believes that Intel was wrong to abandon plans to create graphics processors focused on computing. More precisely, we are initially talking about the Larrabee line, which was canceled just after Gelsinger left Intel in 2010. The project later became Xeon Phi, but with much less ambition. Soon it was closed too. Gelsinger notes that Intel would not have had to subsequently buy five different AI companies if the Larrabee project had continued to be developed. The third point concerns the semiconductor business. Now Intel is actively developing it, trying to become a major market player together with TSMC and Samsung, and also promising that it will master five technical processes in four years, but the head of the company believes that it was necessary to start much earlier. However, in this case the company is at least actively working in this direction.

But it's synthetic It looks like faster memory could significantly speed up upcoming Intel processors. The Core i9-14900KF with DDR5-7000 memory performed much better in the Geekbench test than the Core i9-14900K with DDR5-4800. [caption id="attachment_56054" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Intel processors[/caption] The new result was 3347 and 23,051 points in single-threaded and multi-threaded modes, respectively. Result with slower memory: 3140 and 19,134 points.  Of course, in all cases, allowance must be made for the fact that non-serial samples can pass the tests, but in any case, this is a good increase relative to the Core i9-13900K, which is technically no different from the new product.   With Intel processors, it's time to buy fast DDR5. [caption id="attachment_56055" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Intel processors[/caption] It is also worth remembering that Geekbench is still a synthetic benchmark, and in real applications, the gain may be significantly lower. Especially where the software is insensitive to memory frequency.  

Such processors will be released next year Intel has revealed its Granite Rapids generation Xeon processors, which are expected next year. [caption id="attachment_53231" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Intel[/caption] The new products will replace Sapphire Rapids, bringing an almost twofold increase in the number of cores. The new CPUs will also consist of five chipsets, and, as you can see in the photo, these chipsets look very unusual. Three identical and wider chiplets in the middle are directly computing tiles with processor cores. Two chipsets at the edges are responsible for I/O and additional controllers. Intel showed a "striped" processor. CPU Granite Rapids has five chiplets and looks unusual Intel also showed the Meteor Lake CPU, but we have already seen them more than once. Let us remind you that today we revealed the characteristics of the Core Ultra 7 155H, Core Ultra 7 165H, and Core Ultra 9 185H models.