Broken Silicon 97: Intel 3D Stacking, Alder Lake big.LITTLE, Heterogeneous AMD | Dr. Ian Cutress (Patreon)

Senior Editor at AnandTech Dr. Ian Cutress joins Tom to discuss everything Intel vs AMD vs Nvidia.  This includes a Postmortem on Rocket Lake, challenges bringing big.LITTLE to windows, and who will be most equipped to win the Heterogenous Silicon Wars of 2025.

1:58 Who is Ian?

10:00 The State of Tech Journalism, and the art of good question asking

15:10 Rocket Lake - What did Intel try to accomplish?  Did they succeed?

25:00 Alder Lake – Do we think it will succeed? 

30:10 Challenges bringing big.LITTLE to Windows x86

43:06 Did Zen 1 Overperform Expectations?

49:30 Jim Keller's Role at AMD & Intel

54:10 AMD Buying Xilinx, Intel Buying Altera, EPYC Milan

1:00:00 The Truth about Supply & Demand Issues in 2021

1:09:50 The Importance of Intel Fabs competing with TSMC

1:16:55 Intel Tiles vs AMD Chiplets, 3D Stacking Architectures

1:31:30 Heterogeneous Architectures vs Silicon Photonics Scaling Outwards

1:36:50 AMD vs Intel vs Nvidia in 2025 - Who will make the best APUs?

1:52:37 Advice for Computer Science & Engineering Students

Articles by Ian: https://www.anandtech.com/author/140

Ian's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1r0DG-KEPyqOeW6o79PByw

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iancutress/?originalSubdomain=uk

Ian’s RKL: https://youtu.be/oaB1WuFUAtw

Tom’s Tweet confirming Ian’s Threadripper question at Hot Chips 2019: https://twitter.com/mooreslawisdead/status/1163569630067040256

Ian’s transcript of the Q&A with Lisa at Hot Chips 2019: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14762/hot-chips-31-keynote-day-1-dr-lisa-su-ceo-of-amd-live-blog-145pm-pt

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amd-xilinx-stockholders-overwhelmingly-approve-164900232.html

https://newsroom.intel.com/press-kits/intel-acquisition-of-altera/

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-xe-hpc-ponte-vecchio-examined