At the moment of global core shortage, global semiconductor companies are scrambling to take this opportunity to improve their semiconductor competitiveness and strive to obtain more market share. Intel, as one of the players in the semiconductor field, naturally strives to enhance its advantages in the semiconductor market.
Previously, Intel spent $20 billion to expand the factory, but Intel does not seem to be satisfied, and recently, Intel has released a "big move" to open its own X86 architecture core, and there seems to be a plan for a hybrid architecture core. So why did Intel have this groundbreaking idea?
Intel is definitely not idle and idle, it should also want to enhance its own semiconductor strength, etc., then, Intel can do it?
Intel unleashes "big moves"
On February 16, Intel said that it will develop soft and hard licenses for the X86 architecture, that is, if any manufacturer wants to use Intel's X86 architecture in the future, it will no longer have to work hard to find Intel licenses. Of course, opening up the X86 may not be Intel's goal.
Intel's purpose is said to be to build a multi-instruction set processor, hoping that in the future, on the processor, there can be ARM, RISC-V these architectures coexist. That said, Intel hopes that future processors will have two to three such multiple architectures.
I have to say that Intel's idea is indeed very groundbreaking and novel. So why did Intel suddenly have such an idea?
Why did Intel have such a groundbreaking idea?
First of all, in order to improve their market influence and market competitiveness
Intel licenses its X86 to the outside world, and also wants to complete the coexistence of various cores, so that with the coexistence of multiple cores, Intel's X86 architecture can increase its market influence to a certain extent. After all, such a combination is also the first in the world.
Moreover, the combination of many different types of cores is still likely to appear a combination of strong and stronger, which is also very helpful for improving the competitiveness of Intel X86 in the market.
Second, in order to attract customers, expand their own consumer market
Mixing and matching different chip core architectures, such a novel combination may attract more customers' eyes, and may help Intel attract more customers, thereby expanding its own consumer market and increasing its own economic benefits, which is actually not impossible. It is also possible that Intel will come to such a novelty out of such a consideration.
Why Intel has such a pioneering idea, we don't know, but Intel's doing so will certainly have a lot of benefits and positive impact on itself. At present, Intel's bold and novel idea has not yet become a reality, but Intel itself intends to do so.
So, if Intel puts this idea into reality in the future, can Intel still rely on such behavior to create considerable economic benefits for itself?
Will Intel get what it wants?
First, ARM may not be licensed to Intel for use
In fact, to be honest, such a beautiful fantasy as Intel is actually very likely to be unrealized. We need to know that in order to achieve such an idea from Intel, the premise is that various CPU cores need to be agreed to be used by Intel. But is this possible? Not really.
Take ARM, for example, the current ARM architecture kernel is still not open, to use to find ARM license, then, ARM is it possible to license to Intel? After all, Intel wants to be open, but it is not possible. Why? In terms of chip architecture, Intel and ARM are themselves a pair of competitors.
Intel does not have an architecture is good, after all, Intel's economic resources and chip foundry and so on more business, ARM's trump card is one, that is, chip architecture. How could ARM give up its only competitive advantage?
Second, this way of building blocks may not be successful
Intel wants to use the way of building blocks, so that a variety of chip architecture cores coexist, although intel has previously assembled the core of the three architectures into a coherent chip finished product, but such a finished chip is not a high-end chip, at present, no one can say for sure, once this way of building blocks is used in a more advanced, more complex high-end chip can not succeed. For now, it is also possible to fail.
Therefore, in the current situation of success or failure is still unknown, we can actually reasonably guess that Intel may not be as desired in the future, and this way of building blocks may not work in high-end chips.
Of course, Intel is actually not impossible to achieve, after all, Intel's own scientific and technological strength and financial strength is not weak, the future may not be impossible to successfully achieve the open X86 architecture kernel after the double or even triple combination, may not be able to achieve a strong combination, Intel to achieve the wish, in fact, it is not completely impossible.
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The $20 billion factory seems to be unable to meet Intel's ambitions, and Intel is also preparing to open the X86 architecture core, conceiving a beautiful blueprint for the coexistence of multiple architectures. I have to say that this is indeed a new and bold, unprecedented whimsy, of course, the idea is wonderful.
It's just that whether it can be achieved or not, in real life, it doesn't work, then it is not necessarily, after all, ARM may not agree. Of course, whether Intel's idea can finally be realized, we can only wait and see.