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Discussing Zen 4, Battlemage, and Sapphire Rapids with an Anonymous Intel Engineer (Patreon)

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2022-09-02 03:26:14
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Broken Silicon's next guest will be...an Anonymous Engineer that works at Intel!  Now we'll have to pick and choose the questions carefully - but you're still encouraged to ask absolutely anything you want about AMD, Nvidia, and of course Intel products!

Planned subjects include Battlemage, Sapphire Rapids, Zen 4, Zen 5, Strix, Meteor Lake, and much more!  You have 24 hours, until Friday Evening, to submit your questions below!  Be concise (no novels!), be respectful, and use good grammar to be considered.

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CompressedAIBlocks

Hello Tom and guest, hope you are doing well. Just an open ended question but clearly Intel has been lacking in execution and from an engineering perspective what do you think could be done to improve the situation, if anything? Is it mostly a leadership challenge that's causing this?

Brad Medlin

With the announced retapeout of SPR was anything extra done to improve performance? Also how is EMIB performance wise similar and different to infinity fabric?

Gwen Farron

Is there an air of confidence and/or cockiness around the future battle of Zen 5 vs Meteor Lake or are things getting kind of hairy in the design lab? Thank you for the work you do, give Reesie some scritches for me please.

MelodicArmor

Hello and welcome to guest! What is your professional opinion about the newly announced Orion CPU's from Nvidia? I am curious if you and anyone else at Intel sees them as being a product that could be competing in some use cases against your own server products. Also where do you see your company being effected the most by the recent change in the US government's permits on AI hardware shipments to China?

shredbird

Hi guest, how long have you been at Intel? Have you seen many changes in management during your career? How crucial are charismatic and focused leaders to success?

Danny Donkey

Hello Tom and guest, it is always great to listen to you guys. How strong is Intel's confidence in the x86 architecture if they fail to get any big performance leaps over AMD moving forward?

Robert S Barnes

Hi guys, I have a friend who's an engineer at Intel here in Israel who describes a general enthusiasm for Pat, but at the same time severe problems in mid and lower level project management. How deep are the management culture problems and how do they get fixed?

Kinihun25

Hey Tom and Guest I remember in your last Die Shrink you discussed that Intel can improve the graphics on their Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake CPUs. Do you see Intel having any secret sauce they can to improve cpu performance. AMD just able to stack 3D cache on their CPUs every Gen they release, Intel will catch up and then immediately after 3-6 months they end up 10-15% behind. Thanks for all you do.

Samantha Vimes

Hello Tom and mysterious guest! I'm curious about the future of interconnect technologies. How do you see technologies/standards like Infinity Fabric, UCIe, and EMIB interacting and evolving over the next few technology cycles? What problems do these kinds of technologies need to solve next? And/or do you see any clear opportunities for improvement?

Samantha Vimes

Hey Tom and Guest. Is there a point where Sapphire Rapids becomes so far behind relative to AMD in performance for the time and production cost that it just doesn't make sense to sell/produce it? If so, in your opinions how much more of a delay would be needed to get to that point?

AI Generated Fish

Hi tom and guest, I have a laptop question for you. When I heard the arrow lake leaks, I was really excited on the integrated graphics front but after the launch issues around Arc, going from 96 EU in tiger lake to reaching up to 192 EU in Meteor lake, is it reasonable to almost double EU count again in an additional generation? Will it have enough bandwidth to feed that many EU's? Also, will the node shrink make it lower power applications where intel still seems to struggle against AMD? PS No anti intel bias here, I bought a 12400 before Zen 4 was officially announced.

B_Awesome

Hello Tom and Brave soul, I work in the IT industry and have recently been looking to move away from more software datacenter centric roles into more hardware focused ones. As such I have had interviews and conversations with many hardware vendors. Intel by far strikes me as the most conservative and out of date with their requirements. For instance requiring degrees in areas that wouldn't have existed when I got my degree and ignore experience and demonstrated ability. In your personal experience do you feel like the talent coming in has been quality and what was needed and issues stem elsewhere or do you think there may be issues in talent acquisition that have caused hurtles?

KarbinCry

What is going on with monolithic variants of SPR? The reason given for SPR not launching is an errata in the chiplet version, so why don't we already see smaller core count monolithic SKUs in the wild? Were they always intended for a later launch, or is Intel waiting for the chiplet variant so they can launch the full stack all at once?

Timo H

Hi AnonIntelEngineer, What tricks intel can do, without using old shady tricks, to become successful ? How good is middlemanagement training so new talent can rise up and narrow that important gap?

Stu

Tom and Intel Guru, What do you think of the current state of tech journalism? I think the two of you are well suited to hit this from both sides. Tom, who tries to stay neutral with perhaps a slight bent for the underdog AMD, and an Intel engineer...pretty obvious where your loyalties might swing. Is tech journalism as fair and technical as it used to be? I mainly ask, because the last time I went to Anandtech (after Anand and Ian have left) it was just a sickening amazon ad dead click site...pretty disappointing, but still, what's the state of the "free tech reporting space?"

KarbinCry

How many tiles is enough? Clearly 47 is too low, those are rookie numbers...

KarbinCry

When Raja presented PVC, he mentioned a gelato stand at Ponce Vecchio has great ice cream. Was that a subtle hint warning us that the PVC project, its release roadmap, was about to melt down like gelato under the hot Italian sun?

10GHz Netburst

A lot of Intel talk lately has been dominated by doom and gloom, what would you say is going well at the company?

Swiggles

I am and I would assume you are probably tired about repeating the same old performance metrics increases that you've had for next gen for over a year. What are some phenomenal new features that are available in any of the architectures that will actually change the way things are made or just how much do you think we will increase in Ray tracing and why? And thank you I recently tried watching a couple of other leaking YouTubers and they are so bad thank you so much.

Kevin Warde

To me there are two topics that paint the competitive gap picture for Intel: 1) How is the shift in culture going to excellence in engineering/design from past focus on milking year's past engineering excellence with revenue or channel control tactics? 2. What is the picture to close the manufacturing gap (vs TSMC)?

Elrisa

Hey Tom and anonymous, I think there has always been a larger gap with the ST performance difference between Intel's lineup within a generation vs AMD's chiplet lineups. Since Intel has different physical dies for their lineup, shouldn't it be easier to get a good quality bin on a smaller monolithic die than the larger dies which are reserved for i9's? Since Intel never have any i5's that can clock as high or higher than an i9, does Intel intentionally build their smaller die's performance cores differently to segment them?

Sarcastro

Hello Tom and Engineer, Is the underlying architecture of the GPU die sound? Was there too much ambition to pack in features in the first generation?

Xavbeat03

Hello Tom and Engineer, with zen4 and zen4c server chips on the horizon, at what point do even server applications struggle to use all of the cores available?

Trogdor

Hi Tom and Intel Engineer, one thing that really impressed me with the Zen4 reveal was how area efficient the Zen4 core is compared to Alder Lake. While there was a lot of effort put into making the Little Cores, why does it seems that making Big cores more area efficient is less of a priority? Are there certain IP blocks/instruction sets that Intel is just stubborn about? When AMD's little cores hit the market, will it make Intel's big.LITTLE approach look silly? Thank you both for all your hard work, I can't wait for the next few gens of CPUs

PCDog

Hello! Intel recently did a major revision of it’s ATX specifications for PSU’s. The first major revision in 20 years. What benefits, if any, does ATX 3.0 bring for gamers?

Resynk

Hi Tom and guest, I have noticed with sapphire rapids tdp is up, base clocks are down, and the focus is on accelerators for the workloads. How much ipc increase are you expecting and how much impact do you think accelerators will have on workloads? Also I have seen up to 64gb of hbm2e on chip using emib and you can't use ram with this option? How will this compare to 3d vcache?

Ryzza5

What is one thing you love about Intel and one thing you wish they did differently?

rafa zaya

Hello, Tom and anonymous, I’m curious if internet fanboy drama ever had any impact on anonymous’s day to day at work. Thank you both.

SwirlingMist

Ask him who the genius was who thought up the name “BattleMage” I love that!