➀ Intel confirms the use of Coyote Cove P-cores and Arctic Wolf E-cores for the 2026 client processor Nova Lake; ➁ Panther Cove P-cores for the server processor Diamond Rapids; ➂ No SMT or E-cores in the initial Panther Cove server chips, SMT to be reintroduced in the follow-up generation.
Recent #Microarchitecture news in the semiconductor industry
➀ Intel plans to cut several hundred jobs at its Israeli R&D centers; ➁ The layoffs are part of Intel's cost-cutting efforts; ➂ Employees are leaving for Nvidia and other tech companies.
➀ AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs experience a 10% frequency drop when executing AVX-512 instructions, unlike Intel's CPUs which typically suffer from more substantial clock speed drops; ➁ AMD's implementation on the Zen 5 architecture is efficient but at the cost of die size; ➂ The mobile parts of AMD use a double-pumped AVX-256 approach to execute AVX-512 instructions, which allows for more cores in the processors.