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Intel Alder Lake CPUs leave AMD in the rearview mirror & will continue to lead the market: CEO

Sean — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:41:21 +0000

Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has just shared a new video in which he offered some bold statements regarding its long standing competitor, AMD. The official believes that the company has managed to overtake AMD for good and would remain as the top player in the market.

Pat Gelsinger shared his views in a new video (Via WccFTech report) where he also wished everyone a “Happy 2022” as well. In the video, the executive talked about his journey after joining the chipmaking giant back in January 2021. Within the period of a year, Team Blue managed to launch several key products, with the most notable one being its latest generation of Alder Lake CPUs.

Furthermore, Pat added that “Alder Lake. All of a sudden…Boom! We are back in the game,” exclaims the impish tech CEO. AMD in the rearview mirror in clients and never again will they be in the windshield; we are just leading the market.” In other words, the CEO believes that the latest 12th generation of Intel Core processors have managed to recapture the lead in the market, in terms of performance, and will continue to dominate the segment.

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These are some very bold statements from the senior official. While Intel has managed to bringing consumer interest thanks to the new Alder Lake processors, which offer great price to performance values, AMD likely won’t be sitting still either. As of right now, Intel’s non K variants and the mobile chip models have seen great success in the market that outperform AMD. But Team Red is still a key figure in the server segment and its upcoming CPU generation is also rumored to launch with notable bumps in performance. So stick around for more updates.

Intel CEO’s visit to Taiwan is likely to pressure TSMC over chip orders: Analysts

Sean — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:33:26 +0000

A number of tech analysts have looked at Intel CEO’s, Pat Gelsinger, visit to Taiwan as a means for the American chip giant to pressure TSMC over its chip orders. Apparently, the former is urging the latter to confirm its chip orders for cutting edge latest 3nm process.

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According to a TaiwanNews report, local media reports in Taiwan and analyst believe that the American company is looking to “berate then buy” from the world’s largest contract chipmaker. As per tech analyst Chai Huan-shi, Gelsinger’s visit to Taiwan is not just to acquire chip orders from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company but to also put pressure on the chip manufacturer.

Notably, Chai added that Team Blue’s current product line is not advanced enough as of right now for the 3nm process. Furthermore, he believes that TSMC’s 3nm process has already been booked out by other tech giants, with Intel currently having no order allocation at the moment. So, Chai stated that the CEO arrival in Taiwan could also be the company’s efforts in interfering with TSMC’s corporate strategy. The analyst believes the move is in the best interest of his own company, or possibly even the US government as well.

He noted that while receiving 3nm chip orders might be a symbolic victory for the American company, TSMC’s other customers (including Apple, Nvidia, AMD, MediaTek, and others) could in turn begin pressuring Intel. On the other hand, Intel’s entire efforts could also very well be to interfere in the rivalry between TSMC and Samsung as well.

Global chip shortage could continue until 2023 according to Intel CEO

Zohaib Ahmed — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:26:51 +0000

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger warned that the global chip shortage will likely linger for a lot longer. He said that he expects the shortage to extend at least until 2023.

The statement was made to CNBC late on Thursday ahead of Intel’s third-quarter 2021 financial results. The CEO also revealed that the industry-wide component shortage affected its PC chip business during the third quarter which led to an 8% drop in Intel’s stocks.

Gelsinger believes that the shortage is presently at its worst but will get better incrementally with each quarter next year. Supply-demand balance cannot be expected until at least 2023 though.

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But despite thinning supply, Intel delivered its third-quarter results with a 5% YoY increase in revenue owing to strong demand in its DCG and IoTG businesses. The company also generated $9.9 billion in cash from operations and paid dividends of $1.4 billion.

“Q3 revenue was $18.1 billion slightly below our guide due to shipping and supply constraints that impacted our businesses,” George S. Davis, Chief Financial Officer, said in a statement. He also announced plans to retire from Intel in May 2022.

Intel says that demand has remained strong in its PC business, particularly in commercial, desktop, and higher-end consumer notebooks.

The digitization of everything, pushed by the four superpowers of AI, pervasive connectivity, cloud-to-edge infrastructure, and ubiquitous computing, is driving the continued need for more chips according to Gelsinger.

He further added that the market is expected to double to $1 trillion by the end of this decade. Until then, the market for leading-edge nodes will increase to over 50 per cent of the total and the market for leading-edge foundry services will grow at twice the rate of the semi-industry overall.

“Customers continue to choose Intel for their datacenter needs and our third-gen scalable Xeon processor Ice Lake has shipped over 1 million units since launching in April, and we expect to ship over 1 million units again in Q4 alone,” Gelsinger said.

Intel CEO aims on winning back Apple by making better chips

Sean — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:52:56 +0000

Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, recently sat with Axios on HBO. In the new episode, the senior official and Axios Chief Technology Correspondent Ina Fried to discuss various topics, which included the shift of Apple to its custom designed silicon for its Mac lineup.

During the new Axios episode, the executive was asked if the company has given up on the idea of Apple Macs using the Intel processors in the future. Gelsinger stated that he hopes to win back the Cupertino based giant by outcompeting Apple in this segment with its own chips over time. In the interview, he further added that the chipmaker had stumbled in the past and will “fight hard” to win back Apple’s business by producing better chips than Apple. For those unaware, Apple had announced its shift away from Intel chips in favor of its own custom silicon for its Mac lineup.

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The CEO stated that “Apple decided they could do a better chip themselves than we could. And, you know, they did a pretty good job. So what I have to do is create a better chip than they can do themselves. I would hope to win back this piece of their business, as well as many other pieces of business, over time. And in the meantime, I got to make sure that our products are better than theirs, that my ecosystem is more open and vibrant than theirs, and we create more compelling reason for developers and users to land on Intel-based products.”

Intel CEO believes a “software-first” approach will give company an edge against AMD

Zohaib Ahmed — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:33:07 +0000

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, who was appointed earlier this year, is betting big on a “software-first” approach to help the company rise above the competition. He suggests that software will play a much more significant role in the future of the company as he gears up to compete against a very fast-emerging AMD.

In an interview, Gelsinger admitted that Intel wasn’t in its best shape when he took over as CEO in February, thanks to tough competition from evergreen rival AMD that has seen significant growth in the past couple of years. This is combined with the delay in its delivery of 7nm chips and Nvidia’s progress in the GPU-powered AI growth engine.

But the determined CEO feels that this will be changing soon through the focus on new advancements in manufacturing and architecture over the next few years, paired with Intel’s revamped integrated device manufacturing strategy, IDM 2.0 (via: TechRadar, CRN).

The only setback in Intel’s ambitious plans could be the global silicon shortage that has impacted almost all of the tech industry alike.

However, it appears that Intel will be able to capitalize on the silicon crunch to aggressively push its IDM 2.0 strategy. This should help cushion against any setbacks due to the delay in the production of its upcoming Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids processors.

The strategy, along with the said software-first approach should give Intel the future-proofing that it desperately needs.

“We have to deliver the software capabilities, and then we have to empower it, accelerate it, make it more secure with hardware underneath it. And to me, this is the big bit flip that I need to drive at Intel,” shared Gelsinger.

He added saying that if there’s anything he learned from his 11-year tenure at VMWare, it is that “delivering silicon that isn’t supported by software is a bug.”