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

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

SwirlingMist

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.

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

Ryzza5

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?

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?

PCDog

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

Trogdor

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?

Xavbeat03

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?

Sarcastro

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?

Elrisa

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)?

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.

Swiggles

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

qhfreddy