Intel and AMD's processor race has begun again

Intel and AMD's processors are competing again. At the recent CES 2019 (Consumer Electronics Show), Intel said that it will launch a 10nm processor by the end of this year. AMD will not be outdone to introduce a 7nm PC processor. In the past, these two companies have been competing in the processor field. The wrestling will be even more intense.

According to the Korean media "ZDNet Korea" report, Intel has several internal issues worthy of attention, including delaying the listing of 10nm processors, CEO flash, CPU vulnerabilities and so on. In fact, this is not the first time Intel has faced AMD's threat. 15 years ago, Intel focused on "improving the clock and improving performance", but it was planted in 4GHz Pentium 4 and Tejas.

At that time, Intel was unable to overcome Tejas's fever and performance problems, and the plans to make the clock go smoothly, and began to turn into a multi-core strategy. At that time, AMD took the opportunity to push the 64-bit microprocessor Opteron and the cost-effective AthlonXP processor, which is the key to Intel. Intel, which can't cross the 4GHz wall, has experienced more than two years of darkness. Although the Pentium D emergency is launched, the shortcomings of overheating are criticized.

However, after the Intel Core and Core 2 dual-core processors were introduced in 2006, AMD's glory began to fall. AMD Korea even refused to lend the processor for performance test comparison.

When the second-generation Core processor debuted in 2011, AMD Korea related people said: "We will use the Bulldozer micro-architecture to tear down Sandy Bridge (Intel's micro-architecture)." But as everyone knows, since then AMD is in the processor The field is almost devastated. From 2013 to 2017, AMD competed fiercely with the unified processor on the Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft Xbox One and other game consoles and Radeon's graphics processor.

In 2017, AMD's new CEO Su Zifeng took over the re-engineering of AMD as Intel's competitor and launched the third-generation RYZEN processor in 7-nanometer process, in order to open Intel.

On the other hand, Intel, which faced the challenges of Korean and Japanese memory companies in the late 1980s, focused on microprocessors and decided to take a full-scale reform after discovering many of the Pentium processor's operational errors. Intel's staff movements in the past year have been quite interesting. Introducing chip design guru Jim Keller and independent general Raja Koduri. Coincidentally, they used to work for AMD. Jim Keller used to lead the development of AMD K8 micro-architecture. Raja Koduri used to In charge of AMD's APU, GPU and other graphics technology.

In December last year, Intel organized the architecture day, this year's CES 2019 has previewed several technologies and strategic maps, and what innovative products will be introduced in the future is expected. Therefore, the outside world pays special attention to the Computex (International Computer Show) held in June each year, which is expected to become an important turning point in the competition between Intel and AMD.