97. Intel 3D Stacking, Alder Lake big.LITTLE, Heterogeneous AMD | Dr. Ian Cutress

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.

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0:00 Who is Ian?
10:11 The State of Tech Journalism, and the art of good question asking
15:22 Rocket Lake - What did Intel try to accomplish? Did they succeed?
25:11 Alder Lake – Do we think it will succeed?
30:22 Challenges bringing big.LITTLE to Windows x86
43:17 Did Zen 1 Overperform Expectations?
49:41 Jim Keller's Role at AMD & Intel
54:21 AMD Buying Xilinx, Intel Buying Altera, EPYC Milan
1:00:11 The Truth about Supply & Demand Issues in 2021
1:10:50 The Importance of Intel Fabs competing with TSMC
1:17:55 Intel Tiles vs AMD Chiplets, 3D Stacking Architectures
1:30:35 Heterogeneous Architectures vs Silicon Photonics Scaling Outwards
1:37:50 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

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